Delhi police summoned Mahender Singh Manral, a correspondent of The Indian Express newspaper, for a report about a police investigation into the possibility that an audio clip of Tablighi Jamaat leader, Maulana Saad Kandhalvi, had been doctored. The audio clip is the basis of a case filed against the leader of Tablighi Jamaat, a Muslim religious group, for the spread of COVID-19 in the capital New Delhi. After calling the report “factually incorrect and purely conjectural, “ the police sent a notice to Manral to join the probe on May 11 or face action under Indian Penal Code Section 174.