Earlier, the same notice had been sent by the Adani Group’s legal counsel on 24 June, to The Wire , mentioning the aforementioned authors of the article. The Wire had re-published the EPW’s original article titled ‘Modi Government's ₹500 Crore Bonanza to Adani Group Company’ on 19 June.

Speaking to The Quint on the matter, one of the authors of the controversial article, Abir Dasgupta, said that elaborate questionnaires had been sent to the principal secretaries of the Ministry of Finance (and Arun Jaitley) and the Ministry of Industry and Commerce (and Minister of State Nirmala ­Sitharaman), none of whom responded, as mentioned in the EPW’s story itself.