Editors Guild Concerned Over Summons by Assam Police to The Wire's Senior Journalists

It is not yet clear whether the latest FIR is also linked to the same article, which critiqued the government over Operation Sindoor, it said in a statement on Tuesday

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NEW DELHI: The Editors Guild of India has expressed deep concern over media reports that the Assam Police have summoned two senior journalists — Siddharth Varadarajan, Founding Editor of The Wire, and Karan Thapar, Consulting Editor of The Wire — to Guwahati following the registration of a First Information Report (FIR) against them for allegedly endangering the sovereignty of India.

The Guild noted that summons to Varadarajan and Thapar to appear before the Crime Branch office in Guwahati's Panbazar on August 22, comes just days after the Supreme Court granted Varadarajan and others protection against any "coercive action" by the Assam Police in connection with another FIR lodged over an article published by The Wire.