E-Cool Gaming Solutions Pvt. Ltd. has filed a Criminal Defamation Case against Foundation for Independent Journalism, which runs The Wire, its co-founder Siddharth Varadarajan, and others in the Court of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Aizawl District Court, Aizawl (Mizoram). The defamation case alleges that this article, which reported on a Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) investigation on an alleged Rs 11,000 Crore lottery irregularity in the the Mizoram lottery tender and revenue-sharing process from 2012-2015. Nigam Kumar, a lawyer representing E-Cool told MediaNama that the summons was issued on July 7th (last Friday) and that the next hearing is in first week of September. Siddharth Varadarajan, co-Founder of The Wire, told MediaNama that they have received no information from Subhash Chandra (Chairman of the Essel Group), his companies, their lawyers, or court. E-Cool, as per the story in the Wire, is believed to be closely associated with the Essel Group.