{"id":308664,"date":"2019-01-30T07:58:48","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T07:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=308664"},"modified":"2019-01-30T07:58:48","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T07:58:48","slug":"uttar-pradesh-police-inspector-3-journalists-arrested-for-extortion-in-noida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/uttar-pradesh-police-inspector-3-journalists-arrested-for-extortion-in-noida\/","title":{"rendered":"Uttar Pradesh: Police inspector, 3 journalists arrested for extortion in Noida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-303991 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/arrest-300x227.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"507\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/arrest-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/arrest-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/arrest-555x420.jpg 555w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/arrest.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 507px) 100vw, 507px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A police inspector and three journalists were arrested in Noida, Uttar Pradesh on charges of bribery and extortion, police said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Manoj Kumar Pant, SHO of Sector 20 police station, and the journalists identified as Sushil Pandit, Udit Goyal and Raman Thakur were arrested on Tuesday,\u201d official said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the reports, the four were caught while extorting money of Rs 8 lakh from a call centre owner for removing his name from an FIR, which was registered against him in November 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A Mercedes Car was also seized from the possession of one of the journalists, which prima facie, seems to be associated with some criminal activity.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A police inspector and three journalists were arrested in Noida, Uttar Pradesh on charges of bribery and extortion, police said. &#8220;Manoj Kumar Pant, SHO of Sector 20 police station, and the journalists identified as Sushil Pandit, Udit Goyal and Raman Thakur were arrested on Tuesday,\u201d official said. According to the reports, the four were caught [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":303991,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2014,2015],"tags":[3302,3510,10728,283],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308664"}],"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=308664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308665,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308664\/revisions\/308665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/303991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}