New Delhi: A Delhi court yesterday sent two Zee journalists to two days’ police custody, after investigators said they needed to bring them face-to-face with Zee group chairman Subhash Chandra in a Rs1bn extortion bid case.
Metropolitan Magistrate Ankit Singhla sent the two journalists to police custody till December 10.
Chandra and Zee group’s Managing D irector Puneet Goenka are being questioned in connection with the case. Sudhir Chaudhary, head of Zee News, and Samir Ahluwalia, head of Zee Business, were arrested here on November 27 on charges of attempting to extort Rs1bn from Jindal Power and Steel Ltd in exchange for not filing news reports linking the firm to the irregular coal blocks allocation.
The Jindal Group filed an extortion complaint against them.
Police booked both the journalists under Indian Penal Code Sections 384 (extortion), 120(b) (criminal conspiracy) and 511 (punishment for attempting to commit offences punishable with imprisonment for life or other imprisonment).
IANS
