Thiruvananthapuram: Mangalam TV CEO R. Ajithkumar and four other journalists were arrested on Tuesday for airing an audio purportedly of Transport Minister A.K. Saseendran where he was heard having a lewd conversation with a woman on phone, police said.

The woman, who turned out to be a staffer of the channel, and two other journalists were let off. The arrests came after all the nine accused appeared before the probe team, and a day after the Kerala High Court had fixed for Thursday the hearing on three anticipatory bail pleas filed by them.