Zee extortion?

IN Media Watch Briefs | 08/10/2012

Hindustan Times says that an FIR has been filed by a representative of Congress MP Naveen Jindhal, against Sudhir Chudhary, editor of Zee News and a top executive of Zee Business. The FIR contains a complaint of extortion against the two Zee News journalists for not running the news on coal blocks allocation. According to the complainant, Chaudhary had contacted Jindal’s company claiming to have strong evidence against them in connection with the coal scam and demanded money for not running the story. The paper reports that Chaudhary has said that no one from crime branch has contacted him so far and “the allegations are false and fabricated and the intention is just to gag the media.” Zee News had even ran the story later.

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