Journalist Vinod Verma sent to judicial remand till November 13

A day after his arrest, Chhattisgarh police lodged an FIR against him and state Congress president Bhupesh Baghel.

Raipur court Tuesday sent journalist Vinod Verma to judicial remand till November 13.

Journalist Vinod Verma was arrested and produced before a Ghaziabad court which allowed his transit remand to be taken to Chhattisgarh in Ghaziabad on Friday. (Sakib Ali/ HT File Photo)

The Chhattisgarh Police arrested Verma in connection with extortion and blackmailing case from his residence in Indirapuram in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad on October 27.

Verma was arrested after an FIR was filed against him by a man over a certain ‘vulgar’ video that features his boss.

A day after his arrest, Chhattisgarh police lodged an FIR against him and state Congress president Bhupesh Baghel.

Verma has maintained that he has ‘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.

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