Kerala police has registered an FIR against Zee News Editor-in-Chief Sudhir Chaudhary. He has been charged under non-bailable sections of the law, the anchor of the primetime show Daily News And Analysis (DNA) claimed. Chaudhary tweeted: "Here’s my Pulitzer Prize for reporting the truth. Sharing the citation—an FIR filed against me by the Kerala police under non-bailable sections. The award for exposing inconvenient facts. A clear msg for media. If u don’t toe the decades old pseudo-secular line you’ll be behind bars."
According to the FIR, on March 11, Chaudhary conducted a show that "offended and hurt sentiments of Muslims". A Quint report claimed that the show spoke about the different "types of jihad". Chaudhary further tweeted that this was the price for daring to speak against zameen jihad [land jihad] in Jammu, love jihad in Kerala, PFI funding of CAA protests, and for daring to enter Shaheen Bagh.
"I have all the respect for the law but these tactics won’t stop me. Bring it on," he tweeted.