Ravi Nair was taken into custody and sent to jail on 17th September after a Gandhinagar court issued a non-bailable warrant against him on 3rd September in connection with his petition against his conviction and one-year simple imprisonment in a criminal defamation case against the Adani Group.
Filed in 2021 by Adani Enterprises Limited, the case concerned posts published between 2020 and 2021. The court cited their frequency and continuity to conclude a deliberate attempt to malign the complainant rather than bona fide journalism.