NDTV’s Managing Editor Sreenivasan Jain has openly expressed his disappointment over the channel’s decision to take down a story reported by Manas Pratap Singh and him on the financial dealings of BJP chief Amit Shah’s son, Jay Shah.

Jain says that the story, which was initially said to have been taken down for legal vetting, was factual and did not make any accusations, and yet the story has not been restored. He said that it was ‘deeply unfortunate’ but termed it as a ‘depressing aberration’ and added that he would continue to work with NDTV.

Following an expose by former Economic Times journalist Rohini Singh for The Wire on how the revenue of the company owned by Jay Shah skyrocketed by 16,000 times after the BJP came to power, NDTV had done a follow-up story on the loans given to Jay Shah. While the web version of the story was taken down, the video debate continues to be online.