In the 'Cut the Clutter' video, The Print founder Shekhar Gupta wrongly portrayed that Bloomsbury chickened out of publishing a book on Delhi Riots because of bullying from Sanjeev Sanyal, Dr Anand Ranganathan and Sanjay Dixit
Advocate Sachin BS appearing for the accused argued that Kaniyoor is a public servant and since no permission was sought before filing the complaint, the question of taking cognisance of the matter did not arise.
The Republic TV also accused the Maharashtra government of re-opening cases against the media houses for after it exposed fake claims made by the Maharashtra government regarding the unavailability of trains.
Zee News' Editor-in-chief Sudhir Chaudhary, shared an FIR filed against him in Kerala over his March 11 report, in which he had exposed the idea behind 'Jihad' with a flowchart. The show had triggered the 'secular-liberal' media, who had attacked the Zee News editor for his reportage.