Raipur (Chhattisgarh) [India], October 31: Raipur court on Tuesday sent Senior Journalist Vinod Verma to police remand till November 13.

On October 27, Vinod Verma was detained by the Chhattisgarh Police in connection with extortion and blackmailing case, from his residence in Indirapuram in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad.

Verma was in detention after an FIR was filed against him by a man over a certain 'vulgar' video that features his boss.

A day after his take into custody, Chhattisgarh police booked an FIR against him and state Congress president Bhupesh Baghel.

Verma has maintained that he possesses 'a sex CD 'of a state minister.

"I have a sex CD of Chhattisgarh Minister Rajesh Munat and that is why the state government is not happy with me," he said.

Senior journalist Vinod Verma had asserted that he had the “sex CD” of Munat. though, on Friday, the Chhattisgarh police team arrested Verma from his residence in Ghaziabad on charges of suspected blackmailing and extortion to which Verma allegedly claimed that he was “being framed” and the Chhattisgarh government was “not happy” with him as he had the CD.

On Saturday, Chhattisgarh government handed the probe over the scandal to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).