Facing the Supreme Court’s ire, The Wire is evidently trying to wash off its hand by saying that it has reported the Alok Verma’s response to CVC but not the response which was meant for the SC.

Nevertheless, even in the previous instance where CVC had questioned Alok Verma and he reportedly countered allegations levelled against him, was also part of the Supreme Court monitored probe, which was also not meant to be leaked.

It is true that there were media reports like this which reported the ‘said point-wise rebuttal’, but nobody claimed to have an ‘official response’ from Alok Verma’s side. Some of the examples of reporting over this issue are shown below: