Zee vs Jindal: Another criminal defamation case filed against JSPL, Naveen Jindal & 14 others

The case has been filed by Zee Business Editor Samir Ahluwalia; in a separate case filed by Zee News Editor Sudhir Chaudhary, Judge Jai Thareja fixes January 7 for pre-summoning evidence

BestMediaInfo Bureau | Delhi | January 4, 2013

In a fresh offensive in the case relating to a series of exposes in the Coalgate scam involving Congress MP and industrialist Naveen Jindal and JSPL, Zee Business Editor Samir Ahluwalia has filed a case of criminal defamation against JSPL, Naveen Jindal and 14 others in the court of Judge Namita Kumari in the Patiala House Courts Campus. The court has affixed January 9, 2013 as the date for consideration of the complaint.

According to a press statement released by Zee News Ltd, criminal defamation has been filed against Jindal Steel & Power Ltd, Naveen Jindal, Anand Goel, Haigreev Khaitan, Vikrant Gujral, Ravi Uppal, Arun Kumar Purwar, Ratan Jindal, Sushil Kumar Maroo, Sudarshan Kumar Garg, Hardip Singh Wirk, Ram Vinay Shah, Arun Kumar, Dinesh Kumar Saraogi, Tej Kishen Sadhu, and Rajeev Bhaduria.

In a separate development yesterday, Judge Jai Thareja, in the case relating to criminal defamation against Naveen Jindal and 16 others, filed by Zee News Editor Sudhir Choudhary, the judge took cognisance of the complaint and has fixed January 7, 2013 for pre-summoning evidence.

Those named in this particular defamation case are: Naveen Jindal, Anand Goel, Haigreev Khaitan, Vikrant Gujral, Ravi Uppal, Arun Kumar Purwar, Ratan Jindal, Sushil Kumar Maroo, Sudarshan Kumar Garg, Inderpal Singh Kalra, Hardip Singh Wirk, Ram Vinay Shah, Arun Kumar, Dinesh Kumar Saraogi, Tej Kishen Sadhu, Rajeev Bhaduria and Smt Shallu Jindal.

Vijay Aggarwal, Counsel for Zee News Ltd, said, “The defamation is with respect to malicious statements in the FIR made against my client Sudhir Chaudhary and also the false statements made during the press conference addressed by Naveen Jindal on 25th October, 2012.”

Chaudhary and Ahluwalia have been falsely implicated in a case relating to a series of exposes in the Coalgate scam involving Congress MP and industrialist Naveen Jindal. The two Zee editors wanted to expose Jindal's template of silencing media coverage of Coalgate through a Rs 100-crore advertisement contract.

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