Naveen Jindal and JSPL Withdraws Extortion Case Against Zee; Subhash Chandra Tweets Truce Message
Former parliamentarian and congressman Naveen Jindal and his company Jindal Steel Power Limited (JSPL) have withdrawn FIR alleging extortion with Delhi Police against Zee News and its editors, Sudheer Chaudhary and Sameer Ahluwalia.
Photo Credit : Twitter Account @MPNaveenJindal,
The development happened after Jindal met Subhash Chandra, Chairman of Zee Group today morning. Post meeting, Chandra, later confirmed the news on a follow up tweet and expressed his happiness on the development.
I am happy that JSPL & Naveen Jindal have withdrawn FIR alleging extortion with Delhi Police against Zee & it’s editors, similarly Zee has agreed to withdraw all complaints & cases against JSPL & Naveen Jindal. I wish Naveen very best in his life.
— Subhash Chandra (@subhashchandra) July 13, 2018
Jindal reciprocated in a reply tweet by saying “We have resolved all differences that took place because of miscommunication”
We have resolved all differences
— Naveen Jindal (@MPNaveenJindal) July 13, 2018
that took place because of miscommunication. Happy to leave all that behind. Thank you @subhashchandra ji for your good wishes. Let there be #Peace . @ZeeNews @sudhirchaudhary pic.twitter.com/4wWMvQtBsV
In 2012, former parliamentarian Naveen Jindal had accused that Sudheer Chaudhary and Sameer Ahluwalia, editorial heads of Zee News and Zee Business, tried to extort Rs 100 crore worth of advertisements from his company in return for dropping stories linking to Jindal firms and Coal-gate. Today’s development hopefully brings to end a 6 year long legal battle among the two parties.