A day after the north zone police arrested three TV channel reporters, the Uppal police arrested four more TV channel journalists and three others on the charge of extorting huge amounts of money from business establishments.
According to the police, the accused were identified as Neduri Swamy, editor of a website, M. Saikumar, his accomplice, P. Narasimha Murthy, HR employee with a TV channel, P. Jayaram, sub-editor with Swamy’s website, D. Prabhakar, reporter with Swamy’s website, K. Kumar Sai Vishwanath, a cameraman, and K. Deepthi, HR, of the the website.
On November 4, they took Rs.1 lakh from the owner of an Ayurveda centre at Prashanth Nagar by alleging that he was running a massage centre. In the same way, about three months ago, Swamy and a few others had extorted Rs.80,000 from a company at Vanasthalipuram. They extorted Rs. 70,000 from Sky Deck Coffee lounge at L. B. Nagar Uppal police on Sunday.
