Two Zee editors were on Saturday 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 in a case of alleged extortion bid of Rs 100 crore on Congress MP Naveen Jindal’s company.
Chandra and his son Puneet Goenka, MD of Zee Entertainment Enterprises, on Saturday joined the investigation, following the notice issued by the Delhi Police.
A court had on December 6 granted them interim protection from arrest until December 14. The Delhi Police had moved the application, seeking police remand of the arrested Zee News head Sudhir Chaudhary and Zee Business editor Samir Ahluwalia, whose bail pleas were rejected.
They were arrested on November 27 and subjected to custodial interrogation for two days before being sent to judicial custody on November 30.
Additional Public Prosecutor Rajiv Mohan had sought a further three-day police remand for the two editors, saying: “They were remanded in police custody on November 28 for two days, during which efforts were made to make Chandra and Goenka join the probe, as the accused persons had to be confronted with them to reach to the bottom of the conspiracy.”
