Hyderabad : A Telangana High court has directed news portal The Wire to take down fourteen articles published on its website against COVID-19 vaccine manufacturer, Bharat Biotech International Limited.
The Court also restrained The Wire from further publishing any defamatory articles on Bharat Biotech and its product COVAXIN.
The order was passed by an Additional District Judge at Ranga Reddy District Court in a ₹100 crore defamation suit filed by Bharat Biotech against the publication.
The suit was filed against the publisher of The Wire, Foundation for Independent Journalism, its Editors Siddharth Vardarajan, Sidharth Roshanlal Bhatia and MK Venu, and nine others who wrote the articles against Bharat Biotech and COVAXIN.
