Speaking to Newslaundry about the events leading up to the termination of her services, Kaur, who was senior assistant editor with HT’s Chandigarh bureau, said she was summoned for a meeting on July 26 with Soumya Bhattacharya, the managing editor, and Rakesh Gautam, head of human resources. “I was called to Delhi in the last week of July and told … Amarinder Singh was complaining about my stories to the chairperson of Hindustan Times. I was told [the editors] thought I was a good reporter until they realised my work was biased,” she said. “I was called to Delhi again on August 8 and given the transfer letter. It was followed by a mail on August 12 that in the event of me not joining the national political bureau in Delhi by September 2, it would be assumed that I was no longer interested in continuing to work for the company.”