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NEW DELHI: Zee Group chairman Subhash Chandra and Zee editors Sudhir Chaudhary and Samir Ahluwalia were named as accused and chargesheeted in a lower court in connection with the alleged Rs 100 crore extortion bid from Congress MP Naveen Jindal's firm, Jindal Steel and Power Limited.

According to a senior official of the crime branch, the chargesheet has been filed against the trio under various provisions of the IPC, including Sections 384 (extortion), 120 B (criminal conspiracy) and 420 (cheating). The 110-page-long chargesheet was filed in the court of chief metropolitan magistrate Amit Bansal.

Police said they had not found any evidence yet against either Chandra' s son and MD of Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd Punit Goenka or his brother Jawahar Goel who too were suspected to be involved, However, the chargesheet emphasized that the probe was still underway.

Chaudhary and Ahluwalia were earlier arrested but they are on bail in the case filed by Congress MP Naveen Jindal's firm which accused Chandra and editors of his channel of trying to extort Rs 100 crore as the condition for stopping the telecast of reports allegedly meant to defame JSPL.