ED arrests Upendra Rai

New Delhi (PTI): The Enforcement Directorate on Friday nightt arrested journalist Upendra Rai under the money laundering law, soon after a Delhi court granted him bail in a case of alleged extortion and dubious financial transactions registered by the CBI. 

An ED team put Rai under arrest under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) at the Tihar jail here, officials said. 

The Delhi-based scribe was arrested as he was required to be put under custodial interrogation. 

He will be produced before a court on Saturday.