The Supreme Court on Monday refused to intervene in a petition filed by journalist Ravi Nair against a notice issued to him by the Gujarat Crime Branch in connection with an article that he co-authored about Adani Ports and SEZ Limited, Live Law reported.
A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta asked Nair to move the Gujarat High Court instead, The Hindu reported. It then allowed him to withdraw the petition
The journalist had moved the Supreme Court against a Gujarat Crime Branch notice issued on February 12 in connection with an article published in October 2025 in The Washington Post titled “India’s $3.9 billion plan to help Modi’s mogul ally after US charges”, Live Law reported.
The article had been authored by Nair and Pranshu Verma, former New Delhi bureau chief for The Washington Post.
The notice issued to Nair on February 12 summoned him to the office of the Gujarat Crime Branch on February 19 for a preliminary enquiry in connection with the article and one of his posts on social media.
In his petition against the notice, Nair said that the The Washington Post article “revealed how Indian officials drafted and pushed through a proposal in May 2025 to steer roughly $3.9 billion in investments to Adani Group businesses from the Life Insurance Corporation of India, a state-owned entity...
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