{"id":1022507,"date":"2026-07-21T08:35:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T03:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1022507"},"modified":"2026-07-21T09:02:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T03:32:20","slug":"tv-channel-sealed-over-editors-bribery-claims-against-sme-minister-nityananda-gond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/21\/tv-channel-sealed-over-editors-bribery-claims-against-sme-minister-nityananda-gond\/","title":{"rendered":"TV channel sealed over editor\u2019s bribery claims against SME minister Nityananda Gond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BHUBANESWAR: The city police on Sunday night sealed the office of regional news channel Focus Plus over its editor-in-chief Sudhansu Sekhar Rout\u2019s alleged defamatory remarks and bribery claims against School and Mass Education minister Nityananda Gond. <\/p>\n<p>Police said Rout is currently absconding. The cops, meanwhile, arrested the organisation\u2019s operational manager Sukanta Kumar Nayak (29) and reporter Saroj Rath (32) on charges of assisting Rout in evading arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BHUBANESWAR: The city police on Sunday night sealed the office of regional news channel Focus Plus over its editor-in-chief Sudhansu Sekhar Rout\u2019s alleged defamatory remarks and bribery claims against School and Mass Education minister Nityananda Gond. Police said Rout is currently absconding. The cops, meanwhile, arrested the organisation\u2019s operational manager Sukanta Kumar Nayak (29) and reporter Saroj Rath (32) on charges of assisting Rout in evading arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022527,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022507\/revisions\/1022527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}