Zee News denied the charges and made counter claims of Jindal offering them ₹200,000,000 (equivalent to ₹350 million or US$4.6 million in 2020) to halt their investigations against Jindal Steel's involvement in the scam but filed no charges. Naveen Jindal had accused the two journalists of trying to extort ₹1,000,000,000 (equivalent to ₹1.8 billion or US$23 million in 2020) in advertisements for Zee News from him through blackmail by threatening to air stories against his company in the Coalgate scam.
The two were sent to 14-day judicial custody in Tihar jail and were ultimately released on bail. Two senior journalists Sudhir Chaudhary and Sameer Ahluwalia were arrested. The channel was tried for allegedly extorting ₹1 billion from the Jindal Group revealed through a sting operation. Controversies and criticism Jindal Group incident Sudhir Chaudhary is the editor-in-chief of Zee News and the anchor of the prime time show on the channel. In 2013, Zee News Ltd changed its name to Zee Media Corporation Limited. It was demerged as a separate company of the Essel Group in 2006. it was a subsidiary of the Zee Telefilms Ltd (later renamed to Zee Entertainment Enterprises).The company was reincorporated on, as Zee News Ltd. and it was incorporated in Augas Zee Sports Ltd. Zee Media Corporation Limited (formerly Zee News Ltd.) was founded by Essel Group. The chairman of the group is Subhash Chandra, who is a Bharatiya Janata Party-backed member of the Rajya Sabha.
The channel is subjected to an ongoing criminal defamation case against legislator Mahua Moitra as of March 2020. The channel has been involved in several controversies and has broadcast fabricated news stories on multiple occasions. Zee News was launched on 27 August 1999, The Zee News channel is the flagship channel of Zee Media Corporation Ltd.
Zee News is an Indian Hindi-language news channel owned by the Essel Group. (downscaled to 4:3 576i for the SDTV feed)
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