Booked for extortion!

IN Media Watch Briefs | 31/07/2016
In what could be the  first case of its kind the Goa police has registered an FIR against a newspaper management's  officials for extortion, under Sections 384, 511 read with 34, of the IPC. Management officials of  oHeraldo newspaper were booked  after a freelance journalist published videos on Facebook which showed a casino manager in an incriminating conversation with a sales officer of the paper. The Hoot has reported this case here.