# Gujarat High Court refuses to quash FIR against journalist Ravi Nair over Adani article 2026-08-17T10:16:40+00:00 | Governance | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 2 independent outlets The Gujarat High Court has refused to quash a forgery FIR against journalist Ravi Nair, registered by Adani Ports and SEZ Ltd over a Washington Post article alleging LIC invested USD 3.9 billion in the Adani Group on government instructions. Justice M R Mengdey observed that the FIR and a pending defamation complaint involved different allegations and that investigation was needed to determine the authenticity of documents cited in the article. The court noted that LIC and the Finance Ministry had disputed the existence of those documents. Livelaw.in reports that Nair had argued the FIR was an abuse of process since a defamation complaint on the same facts was pending. The court rejected this, saying a cognizable offence was prima facie made out. In a related development, The News Minute reports that on August 17, 2026, Gujarat police raided Nair's homes in Kerala and Delhi, seizing phones, laptops, and a tablet, including devices belonging to his son and a colleague who are not accused. The police did not provide hash values for the seized devices, which the report says goes against Supreme Court guidelines. The FIR was registered under sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita including cheating and forgery. Nair had earlier approached the Supreme Court but withdrew the case with liberty to move the High Court. The court dismissed his plea to quash the FIR, allowing the investigation to proceed. ## Coverage - livelaw.in - thenewsminute.com This story was synthesised by AI from the 2 sources linked above. Updated: this story now draws on 2 sources. Last updated 2026-08-17T16:56:21+00:00. Tags: Adani Group, Adani Ports and SEZ Ltd, Gujarat High Court, LIC, Ravi Nair Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/gujarat-hc-refuses-to-quash-fir-against-journalist-ravi-nair-in-adani-lic-forgery-case/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/gujarat-hc-refuses-to-quash-fir-against-journalist-ravi-nair-in-adani-lic-forgery-case/#story-in-brief How this brief was made: an AI model read the reports linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. Stance labels are editorial classifications of how each outlet framed this story, assigned by the same model, not ratings of the outlets. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/