Noted YouTuber Chintapandu Naveen alias Teenmaar Mallanna, who has been in jail for a long time, finally got bail from the Telangana High Court.
Various cases had been filed against him across Telangana, and he was arrested in August this year in a blackmailing case involving an astrologer. The police had also raided his Qnews office and seized some documents and hard disks.
A total of 38 cases have been filed against Mallanna so far. Of these, 6 cases were quashed by the HC. He got bail in the 31 of the remaining 32 cases.
The wife of Mallanna recently met Union Home Minister Amit Shah and lodged a complaint that her husband was being falsely framed by the state police. The National BC Commission had also expressed its unhappiness over the cases against the journalist.
Mallanna spent more than two months in jail before getting bail.
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