Ramaswami: Newsclick Report 15 May 2020 Allahabad HC Grants Anticipatory Bail to The Wire’s Siddharth Varadarajan New Delhi: The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court has granted anticipatory bail to Siddharth Varadarajan, co-founding editor of independent news portal, The Wire. The Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh government and UP Police had last month filed two FIRs against Varadarajan, booking him under criminal charges under was booked under Sections 188, 505(2) of the IPC and Section 66D of the IT Act for allegedly making "objectionable" remarks in a story published in the portal, according to a report in LiveLaw.