Journalist Vinod Verma arrested for making extortion call to blackmail a Chattisgargh Minister

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Oct 27 2017 01:37 PM
Payal Dwivedi

Recently, the Chhattisgarh police have arrested a former BBC journalist Vinod Verma from his house Ghaziabad today in the morning itself. The journalist was blamed for making a theft call to blackmail a Chhattisgarh minister with a sex CD. The BBC journalist has been charged under many sections like 384 and 507 of the Indian penal code (IPC) for extortion and threatening. The reason for arresting the journalist emerges because the battle sparked between the Chhattisgarh units of the Congress and the BJP, came following a complaint by BJP’s state working committee member Prakash Bajaj to the Pandaria police station in Chhatisgarh’s Raipur district. The case was handed over to the crime branch superintendent of police (SP) Ajatshatru Bahadur Singh who led a team to Delhi to investigate the matter.

Senior police officials in Ghaziabad has confirmed the arrest made by Chhattisgarh Police but denied to reveal all the details of the case. Verma who now currently work as a freelancer. According to the officials said “ Vinod Verma was arrested by Chhattisgarh Police from his Indirapuram residence. He was brought to the police station here for investigation. A case has been registered against him in Pandaria police station in Raipur."
However, sources reported that Vinod Verma was arrested for possession of a sex CD involving a minister in the BJP government in Chhattisgarh and was making extortion attempts. Not only this sources also revealed that " Verma allegedly made a phone call earlier this week to one of the close sources of the BJP minister in question and demanded a price. A team of Chhattisgarh Police then charged a shop in Delhi and seized as many as 1000 prints of the alleged sex video. Based on the questioning of the shopkeeper, the police raided Verma’s house in Indirapuram. After the backlash following Verma’s arrest, BJP spokesperson in Chhattisgarh Shrichand Sundari refuted claims about the alleged CD and accused the Congress of conspiracy. “These controversies do not affect BJP. The party is ready for any probe into the matter,” Sundarani said.