Chhattisgarh: Two journalists arrested for publishing ‘defamatory content material’ towards Baghel govt and Congress MLAs

Journalists of the Congress-ruled Chhattisgarh are actually going through collateral harm of the facility battle between the camps led by chief minister Bhupesh Baghel and the well being minister TS Singh Deo after the Chhattisgarh Police arrested two journalists for allegedly spreading misinformation to destabilize the Baghel authorities.
The arrested journalists have been recognized as Madhukar Dubey and his technical assistant Avinash Palliwar who have been booked underneath part sections 384 (punishment for extortion), 189 (risk of damage to public servant), 504 (intentional insult with intent to impress breach of the peace), 506 (punishment for legal intimidation) and 501 (1) (B) (printing or engraving matter recognized to be defamatory) of the IPC.
An FIR was lodged on the Civil Lines Police station of Raipur district. The criticism was filed by two Congress MLAs Brihaspat Singh of Ramanujganj meeting seat and Kuldeep Juneja of Raipur (North).
Madhukar Dubey and Avinash Palliwar run an online portal zeroparty.in they usually had reportedly printed sure contents towards ruling get together MLAs speaking towards the chief minister of Chhattisgarh. The content material was apparently a part of a sting operation printed on October 24.
Police seized their laptops, cell phones and different digital units and in addition eliminated all such contents uploaded on the portal. The police apparently have additionally disabled the portal.   
“The matter is related to the circulation of some contents by them which were called a sting operation. According to complainants who are MLAs the contents were misleading and fabricated and these were circulated with an intention to malign their image as well as the state government. The probe is going on in this matter,” the officer-in-charge of Civil Lines Police station Satya Prakash Tiwari acknowledged.
He didn’t disclose something particular in regards to the content material. But plainly each MLAs had featured within the mentioned sting, apparently filmed in a lodge as some media experiences have claimed.
Brihaspat Singh is taken into account near chief minister Baghel. The MLA usually courted controversy for making controversial and derogatory remarks. He had known as tribals as illiterate. He had created an argument after he accused TS Deo and his kin of assaulting him and planning to kill him. In the facility battle between the chief minister and well being minister, Brihaspat Singh has vociferously supported Baghel.     
Barely three days again, each camps made a public demonstration of their muscle energy when a senior get together chief Pawan Agrawal near the well being minister Deo was manhandled on the state throughout a programme at Jashpur for talking in help of well being minister.