On Friday, Ayodhya police showed up unannounced, at the home of The Wire’s founding editor, Siddharth Vardarajan. Varadarajan’s wife, Nandini Sundar, listed out the sequence of events in a set of tweets.

She said that a man dressed in civilian clothing came to their residence and served a notice to Vardarjan. He refused to give his name but said that he was sent by the Ayodhya “prashasan”. Sundar said that later in the afternoon, seven or eight uniformed officers came knocking at their door in a black SUV with no number plate.

A notice was served, asking Varadarajan to appear in Ayodhya at 10 pm on April 14 "in connection with FIR registered by the police".

Here’s the timeline of the events: