Scroll’s Supriya Sharma Booked for Report on PM’s Adopted Village

The FIR was filed after a resident of the village filed a complaint alleging her statements were misrepresented.

The Uttar Pradesh police registered an FIR against Supriya Sharma, the Executive Editor of Scroll.in for allegedly misrepresenting facts in a report on the effects of lockdown in a Varanasi village adopted by PM Modi under the Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana.

The FIR was filed after a resident of Varanasi’s Domari village, Mala, filed a complaint alleging that her statements were misrepresented and that she and her family did not go hungry during the lockdown.