The Supreme Court on Friday directed the Uttar Pradesh government to respond to a plea seeking the quashing of criminal proceedings against journalist Mamta Tripathi in a defamation case related to a published news article.
Multiple FIRs had been lodged against journalist Abhishek Upadhyay for his alleged report on caste dynamics of the general administration in UP. As regards, another journalist Mamta Tripathi, various FIRs had been lodged against her for her allegedly defamatory tweets made on X.