Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel is an accused in this case. Tushar Mehta, the government’s second most-senior law officer, told the Supreme Court that witnesses were being threatened in this case. Moonat had alleged that journalist Vinod Verma and Bhupesh Baghel, who was then the state Congress chief, were using what he had described as a “sex CD”, to blackmail him. Verma, who had taken up an assignment with the state Congress as its strategist, was arrested in October 2017. Baghel, who has described the case against him as politically motivated, took over as Chhattisgarh Chief Minister in December 2018.

Source: Hindustan Times October 21, 2019 06:44 UTC