Some seven weeks before today's arrest of lawyer Sudha Bhardwaj and other activists, allegations made in a programme on Republic TV aired defamatory and unattributed charges against her calling her Comrade Sudha, showing a letter which she had purportedly sent. Anchors on the channel called her and others 'urban naxals' and alleged links between Maoists and Kashmiri militants and a plot to kill the PM. Bhardwaj had issued a statement right away refuting all allegations and saying that she found it curious "that a document purporting to contain evidence of such serious crimes should first surface in the studio of Arnab Goswami.” Interviews with her refuting the charges are here and here.