Uttar Pradesh Police in Faizabad registered an FIR against The Wire and its editor Siddharth Varadarajan, on the complaint of an individual under Sections 188 and 505 (2) of the Indian Penal Code for reporting that Chief Minister Adityanath had attended a public religious event in Ayodhya on March 25 after the prime minister had announced a national lockdown to deal with the coronavirus.