Zee editors sent to two-day police custody

December 08, 2012 21:34

Two Zee editors were today remanded back in two-day police custody by a Delhi court -- to enable the investigators to confront them with Zee Group head Subhash Chandra and his son -- for collecting evidence in the alleged Rs 100 crore extortion bid from Congress MP Naveen Jindal's firm.

"Two-day police custody is granted," Metropolitan Magistrate Ankit Singla said. He said that the police cannot be deprived of the opportunity to collect evidence in the alleged extortion bid, for which it was necessary to confront the arrested persons with Chandra and his son Puneet Goenka, MD of Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd.

"In the present case, the sessions court has directed other two accused (Chandra and Goenka) to join investigations. Evidence cannot be collected if the investigating agency is not given an opportunity to confront the version of all the four accused with each other as there are allegations of criminal conspiracy," the court said.

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