{"id":303938,"date":"2018-10-09T09:09:07","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T09:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=303938"},"modified":"2018-10-09T09:09:09","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T09:09:09","slug":"police-arrest-journalist-for-linking-tamil-nadu-governor-to-sex-scandal-case-in-his-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/police-arrest-journalist-for-linking-tamil-nadu-governor-to-sex-scandal-case-in-his-article\/","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest journalist for linking Tamil Nadu Governor to sex scandal case in his article"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/police-arrest-journalist-for-linking-tamil-nadu-governor-to-sex-scandal-case-in-his-article\/nakheeran\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-303943\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-303943 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/nakheeran-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/nakheeran-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/nakheeran.jpg 464w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Journalist Nakkheeran Gopal, editor of popular Tamil weekly &#8216;<em>Nakkheeran<\/em>&#8216;, was arrested on October 9 by Chennai city police at the Chennai airport on charges of defamation for allegations against Tamil Nadu Governor Banwarilal Purohit in an article.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Journalist Gopal was taken into custody around 8.15 am when he was about to board a flight to Pune.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A top police officer while confirming his arrest said, \u201cHe was arrested by a deputy commissioner rank official from Adyar. We will reveal other details later.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to sources close to Gopal the police is likely to press sedition charges against him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Gopal has published a cover photo in its current edition of the governor and assistant professor Nirmala Devi, who was arrested on charges of allegedly pushing college girls for extending sexual favours to senior officials of the leading Madurai Kamaraj University in return for marks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Gopal also alleged in its article that Devi has said that she met the governor four times. The governor is the chancellor of Madurai Kamaraj University to which the Devanga Arts College is affiliated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">An alleged telephone recording of her conversation with a few women students went viral.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam\u2019s president MK Stalin while condemning the arrest of Gopal said, \u201cWith the action of arresting Gopal, it is obvious that the AIADMK government in Tamil Nadu is a puppet of the BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) ruling at the Centre. The governor should have the nature to face criticisms. It shows that press freedom is under a threat now.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journalist Nakkheeran Gopal, editor of popular Tamil weekly &#8216;Nakkheeran&#8216;, was arrested on October 9 by Chennai city police at the Chennai airport on charges of defamation for allegations against Tamil Nadu Governor Banwarilal Purohit in an article. Journalist Gopal was taken into custody around 8.15 am when he was about to board a flight to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":303943,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2072,2014,2534],"tags":[1856,1713,1900,3306,5485,644],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303938"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303938"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303946,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303938\/revisions\/303946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/303943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}