The Economic and Political Weekly, a 50-year-old weekly peer-reviewed academic journal, was slapped with a defamation notice on 5 July and earlier on 24 June by industrialist Gautam Adani’s Adani Group, for a story on how the government allegedly bent the rules for the Group with regard to Special Economic Zones (SEZs), which ostensibly led to the conglomerate making a profit of Rs 500 crore.

Here is a copy of the defamation notice dated 5 July 2017, sent to the publisher of the EPW, namely, Sameeksha Trust and the authors of the article – Paranjoy Guha Thakurta (editor-in-chief, EPW), Abir Dasgupta (Editorial Assistant, EPW), and two independent journalists Advait Rao Palepu and Shinzani Jain.