A court docket in Gujarat’s Gandhinagar district has issued notices to journalists Abhisar Sharma and Raju Parulekar to seem earlier than it in reference to prison defamation complaints filed in opposition to them by the Adani Group, PTI reported on Tuesday.
According to a press launch by the industrialist Gautam Adani-owned conglomerate, the Court of Judicial Magistrate First Class in Adalaj directed Sharma and Parulekar to seem earlier than it on September 20.
“The complaints level to a YouTube video uploaded on August 18, 2025, by Sharma alleging that 1000’s of bighas of land in Assam had been allotted to Adani and tying the corporate to a sample of supposed political favours,” the information company quoted the discharge as saying.
It added that the complaints filed in opposition to Parulekar pertained to his social media posts “since January 2025 making comparable claims of land grabs, scams and undue advantages”.
Describing the allegations as “baseless and deceptive”, the Adani Group claimed that an order issued by the Gauhati High Court on August 12, which was cited by the 2 journalists, made no reference to the conglomerate.
“The firm additionally clarified that Mahabal Cement Pvt Ltd, the agency on the centre of the High Court case, has no reference to Adani in any method,” PTI quoted the discharge as saying.
The case within the High Court pertained to the allocation of a plot of land measuring 2,000 bighas in Assam’s Dima Hasao district to Mahabal Cement Private Limited in October 2024. In November, the non-public firm was allotted a further adjoining plot measuring 1,000 bighas.
The Gauhati High Court had questioned the allotment of the three,000 bighas, or about 4 sq km, of land to the non-public firm to arrange a cement manufacturing facility, directing the state authorities to furnish the coverage below which “such an enormous chunk of land” may very well be given away.
Reports had claimed that Mahabal Cement Private Limited was linked to the Adani Group.
Mahabal Cement is a subsidiary of JK Lakshmi Cement.
In its press launch, the conglomerate said that the proof positioned earlier than the Gandhinagar court docket included Sharma’s video and transcript, together with Parulekar’s social media posts. It additionally contains the Gauhati High Court order from August 12 and different supporting data, the information company reported.
If admitted, the circumstances could proceed to trial, the place the 2 journalists can face imprisonment as much as two years, fines, or each, it added.
The improvement comes days after a Delhi court docket on September 6 quickly restrained 5 journalists and three web sites from publishing allegedly defamatory materials about Adani Enterprises.
The journalists are Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Ravi Nair, Abir Dasgupta, Ayaskant Das and Ayush Joshi, and the web sites are paranjoy.in, adaniwatch.org and adanifiles.com.au.
The matter pertained to a defamation swimsuit filed by Adani Enterprises, alleging that journalists, activists and organisations had broken the corporate’s status and price its stakeholders billions of {dollars}, Bar and Bench reported.
Adani Enterprises is the flagship firm of the Adani Group.
