Zee alleges 'one-side' probe by police, moves court

MUMBAI: Zee News Ltd (ZNL) has alleged that investigations into the case against its editors were "one-sided" and has demanded JSPL promoter Naveen Jindal, his brother Prithvi Jindal and uncle Sitaram Jindal be interrogated.

ZNL?s counsel Vijay Aggarwal has moved an application invoking Section 156 of the CrPc alleging that Delhi Police conducted a ?one-sided investigation?. The counsel has also moved court asking it "to monitor the investigation as Delhi Police is focusing solely on the false complaint by Naveen Jindal".

The news channel has further demanded that all call records of all the phones used by Jindal and his relatives to contact the Zee News non-executive chairman should be seized.

The Zee News statement also said the counsel urged the court to instruct the investigating officer to compare contradictions in Jindal?s FIR of 2 October, 2012 and his petition filed in Bombay.

Meanwhile, Zee Group chairman Subhash Chandra and the two Zee News editors were on Monday issued notices by a Delhi court seeking their response on the Delhi police?s plea for conducting a lie detector test on them.

Earlier on Sunday, Chandra had said that he would file a defamation case against the Jindals.

Zee News editors Sudhir Chaudhury and Samir Alhuwalia were arrested last month following a complaint by Jindal?s company alleging Rs 100 crore (1 billion) extortion bid in exchange of not running negative stories relating to JSPL?s alleged involvement in the coal blocks allocations controversy.

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