Journalist Sunil Namdeo of Raipur is being praised for questioning Saumya Chaurasia after ED took her into custody
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday arrested Saumya Chaurasia who is the deputy secretary to Chhattisgarh and a video has gone viral over social media which shows a journalist being praised for questioning Chaurasia. The journalist has been identified as Sunil Namdeo who works in the News Today Network in Uttarakhand.
Who Is Journalist Sunil Namdeo Of Raipur Chhasttisgarh As His Video Questioning Saumya Chaurasia Goes Viral On Twitter
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“The ‘super CM’ has now been arrested. She has snatched the hard-earned money from Chhattisgarh citizens. The administrative officials used to worship her and now she is in police custody,” Namdeo could be heard saying that. He also constantly kept on labeling her as the ‘Bhrashtachaar Ki Murti’, the literal translation of which is ‘the Queen of Corruption.
After the ED officials took Saumya Chaiurasia away, the journalist was hailed by people including the lawyers and government officers who had gathered at the spot during her arrest. “Ek Number, Behtareen, Wahh Wahh (excellent)”, the crowd cheered as they lauded the journalist fiercely against the arrest of the official. The journalist further stated that the arrested official had threatened a journalist earlier also.
Who Is Sunil Namdeo?
Sunil Namdeo hails from Raipur, Chhattisgarh. According to him, the Baghel government has been targeting journalists in the state for exposing corruption. In November this month, Namdeo wrote a letter to Home Minister Amit Shah and the Prime Minister’s Office stating that the journalists in the state are being tortured by the state government for reporting against them.
“The State officials are harassing the senior journalists in the state for reporting the truth and making it revealed the corrupt state officials as law and order in the state have also become a matter of grave concern,” he had said.
Namdeo in the letter further stated that his life was in a bug danger because constant threats were being issued to him by state CM Bhupesh Baghel and Saumya Chaurasia.
Who Is Saumya Chaurasia?
Saumya Chaurasia is well known for being the deputy secretary to the Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel got arrested by ED on Friday, 2. 11. 22 for being involved in a big illegal mining case involvement of more than Rs 150 crore. Saumya is a Chhattisgarh Administrative Service (CAS) public official who joined the office of CM when Baghel established the state government in 2018.
The I-T department searched her residence in July and confiscated 14 crores of undisclosed cash and also jewelry from her. Saumya was also found to be cheating the government by evading taxes. In 2020, the income tax officers raided Saumya Chaurasia’s Bhilai residence, causing Baghel to write a scathing letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi over what he called unconstitutionally and politically driven I-T raids in the Congress-ruled state.
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