BJP president Amit Shah’s son Jay Shah on Thursday filed an affidavit in the Gujarat High Court, supporting an ex parte order passed by Ahmedabad district court asking Delhi-based news portal The Wire not to publish any further report on his company’s turnover.

The Wire moved the High Court after the district court, Mirzapur, last month passed the order in favour of Jay. The High Court concluded arguments on the portal’s plea and reserved its order.

According to a report published by the portal last month, the turnover of Jay’s firm grew 16,000 times over in the year following the BJP’s election to power at the Centre in 2014. In his affidavit in the High Court, 29-year-old Jay said: “Absence of such an order defeats the very object of filing the (defamation) suit as well as the application…since the defendants (The Wire) therein will continue to damage the reputation of the original plaintiff-respondent (Jay) herein for unknown oblique purposes.”