A Particular CBI Courtroom in Raipur on January 24, 2026 put aside a Justice of the Peace court docket’s 2024 order that had discharged former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel within the 2017 obscene video case linked to the alleged defamation of former cupboard minister Rajesh Munnat.
The Particular CBI Courtroom, Raipur order reversed the magisterial court docket order that had discharged Baghel within the case associated to an obscene video purportedly depicting Rajesh Munnat, who was then serving as Public Works Division (PWD) minister within the Authorities of Chhattisgarh.
In the identical proceedings, the court docket additionally rejected the appeals filed by different accused—Kailash Murarka, Vinod Verma and Vijay Bhatia—difficult the trial court docket’s order framing costs in opposition to them.
WHAT IS THE SEX CD CASE
The controversial intercourse CD case revolves across the former Chhattisgarh minister Rajesh Munat. The intercourse CD which was circulated in Chhattisgarh had objectionable content material involving the BJP chief. In October 2016, a BBC and Amar Ujala journalist, Vinod Verma, was nabbed by the police from Uttar Pradesh with 500 copies of the CD.
He was arrested on the costs of extortion as he allegedly doctored the video and circulated it within the political corridors to taint the popularity of Munat. Subsequently, over an FIR filed by Munat, the then Congress president, Bhupesh Baghel, was additionally despatched to judicial custody for 14 days. The case remains to be being probed by the CBI.
It was additionally discovered that Vinod Verma was additionally working as a guide for the then Congress president, Bhupesh Baghel.
Following the switch, the CBI carried out an in depth investigation and filed a most important chargesheet together with a supplementary chargesheet in opposition to six accused, together with Bhupesh Baghel. The case has remained below authorized scrutiny for a number of years and has drawn sustained consideration because of its political sensitivity.
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