A senior journalist, Vinod
Verma, has been arrested on Friday early morning from his residence at
Ghaziabad UP. The arrest of Verma has been done by Chhattisgarh police in
connection with the allegation of blackmailing of a State Minister’s sex CD.
Mr Verma had telephoned on a
companion of minister this week and sought the money. a case has been
registered against Mr Verma in Pandari police station at Raipur in this
connection. Chhattisgarh police on this basis raided a Delhi shop and seized
the prints of 1000 alleged CD from the possession.
According
to the police, Verma’s residence at Indirapuram Ghaziabad was raided by police
after quizzing with the shopkeeper, and the police arrested Vinod Verma from
here. Many CD prints of Minister's alleged sex scandal have been recovered from
Verma’s possession. Even his Laptop and pen drive have also been taken in
police possession.
Vinod
Verma is the former BBC journalist. He has been editor to Amar Ujala Digital
section. He is member of Editors’ guild of India at present and is working as
freelance journalist now.
State
Congress president, Bhupesh Baghel, has condemned this arrest. He said, “The
Minister’s sex CD was surfaced last week. The CD is also available here. We are
verifying it authenticity. Any person's
CD being found in possession of anybody is not an offense which has been capped
over Mr Verma." The action shows that the BJP government is trying to vanish the
matter.
