Police in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh booked cases against executive editor and editor-in-chief of the news portal Scroll.in under various charges of the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 and sections of the Indian Penal Code. It was for a report published on thew website about worsening condition of a women due to COVID-19 lockdown in Varanasi district, the parliamentary constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.