It was 6 a.m. when 4 males and a lady knocked on the door. The one who lived there, a journalist with the web paper NewsClick, mentioned she assumed they had been neighbors. Through the peep-hole, she noticed a bunch of individuals in civilian garments lined up alongside her staircase. She opened the door.

The 5, she says, then “barged” into her New Delhi condominium, mentioned they had been police, and had a warrant to look her house. When she demanded to be proven the warrant, she observed it had few evidentiary particulars.