The Guild, the statement said, expected the Government of India and the civil society to intervene strongly against any witchhunt against the newspaper and its editor. “A newspaper cannot be hounded just because the government of Andhra Pradesh and the ruling party in the state dislikes its editorial policy,” the statement said. “In the matter of the investigations into the financial company owned by Rao and his family, the matter is before the higher courts and law should take its natural course,” it added.