Ex-BBC publisher indicted of blackmailing politician arrested in India

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Police in a India state of Chatees Garh have arrested comparison publisher Vinod Verma from his home nearby Dehli on Friday morning. He was arrested for allegedly blackmailing a apportion of state opposite a sex video that he had acquired, according to BBC Urdu.

Police explain that as many as 500 copies of a video were done and burnt on CDs, that were recovered during his residence on a arrest.

Vinod, who in a past associated with BBC Hindi Service, is a member of a Editors Guild and has also served as a digital editor during Hindi Amar Ujala, a journal with one of a largest circulations in India. Vinod denied carrying CDs, while adding that he usually has a coop expostulate and that he was secretly concerned in a case

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is a celebration now statute in Chatees Garh while Niksal Baris is also some-more active in a state.

Vinod, also from Chatees Garh, has been a inclusive author on amicable and domestic issues, and had recently visited a state with a group from a Editors Guild to prepared a news on a problems reporters face. “The statute celebration is dissatisfied with me,” Vinod pronounced after he was arrested.

Vinod is pronounced to be associated to a comparison Congress celebration leader, Bhupan Baghel. Baghel pronounced that he also perceived a purported CD, while a following movement by a military proves that a CD is not doctored and is authentic.

“The Chatees Garh supervision was not happy with Vinod’s stating and a movement aims during suppressing a voice of journalists,” Baghel said.

The apportion in question, Rajesh Munter, pronounced that he has watched a CD himself and that it is totally fabricated. He combined that he is prepared to face inquiries by any institution.

This story has gained traction and has been widely circulated on TV channels, while polite rights organisations, such as People’s Union for Civil Liberties, have deemed it an conflict on leisure of a press.

Vinod, after a movement remand served by Delhi court, will be taken to Raipur, a collateral of Chatees Garh. A box was purebred opposite Vinod yesterday on a censure of BJP Minister Parkash Bajaj.

A internal publisher from Raipur, Alok Potal, pronounced that Vinod’s name was not even mentioned in a FIR that Bajaj had registered. He pronounced that a military was sensitive about a emporium that was creation a copies and that a emporium owners destined a military to Vinod.

Following a arrest, a Congress and BJP have indulged in a censure game, any accusing a other of hatching a conspiracy.

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