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In 2012, a controversy ensued after sitting [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] [[Member of Parliament|MP]] and steel baron Naveen Jindal, chairman of [[Jindal Steel & Power]], released a grainy tape which allegedly captured an attempt made by two employees of Zee News to blackmail him. Jindal alleges that two senior staffers of Zee news, namely Sudhir Chaudhary and Sameer Ahluwalia, acting at the behest of [[Subhash Chandra]] (promoter of [[Zee News]]), approached him with what was in effect an instance of blackmail. The two staffers allegedly said that they had a lot of negative information about Jindal's business activities, and that they would air the same on Zee News unless Jindal paid them a large sum of money, reported to be one billion rupees.<ref name="indiatimes.com"/> Jindal supposedly made a recording of the alleged blackmail attempt, released the tape to the media, and lodged a police complaint.<ref>{{cite av media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTc5S6-lfwo|title=ZEE-Jindal sting operation: Naveen Jindal unveils ZEE News blackmailing|date=28 October 2012|publisher=|via=YouTube}}</ref> |
In 2012, a controversy ensued after sitting [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] [[Member of Parliament|MP]] and steel baron Naveen Jindal, chairman of [[Jindal Steel & Power]], released a grainy tape which allegedly captured an attempt made by two employees of Zee News to blackmail him. Jindal alleges that two senior staffers of Zee news, namely Sudhir Chaudhary and Sameer Ahluwalia, acting at the behest of [[Subhash Chandra]] (promoter of [[Zee News]]), approached him with what was in effect an instance of blackmail. The two staffers allegedly said that they had a lot of negative information about Jindal's business activities, and that they would air the same on Zee News unless Jindal paid them a large sum of money, reported to be one billion rupees.<ref name="indiatimes.com"/> Jindal supposedly made a recording of the alleged blackmail attempt, released the tape to the media, and lodged a police complaint.<ref>{{cite av media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTc5S6-lfwo|title=ZEE-Jindal sting operation: Naveen Jindal unveils ZEE News blackmailing|date=28 October 2012|publisher=|via=YouTube}}</ref> |
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⚫ | In 2007, Sudhir Chaudhary was head of a now-defunct channel called Janmat. It was shut down after Chaudhary allegedly ran a fake sting operation on a school teacher for supposedly running a sex racket, as a result of which she was attacked by a mob on camera.<ref>{{cite web|title=Look who’s calling us anti-national! The pleasant antecedents of Sudhir Chaudhary and journalistic ethics of IBN 7|url=http://kafila.org/2016/03/09/look-whos-calling-us-anti-national-the-pleasant-antecedents-of-sudhir-chaudhary-and-journalistic-ethics-of-ibn-7/|publisher=Kafila.org|accessdate=17 March 2016}}</ref> |
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Sudhir Chaudhary is an Indian media professional. He is a news anchor and the Channel Head of Zee News, a Hindi-language television news channel.[1]
Career
Chaudhary has been working since the mid-1990s in the TV news industry. Over the period of two decades, he has worked at several Hindi and Marathi news channels. Notably, he aided in the launch of Sahara Samay, the Hindi news channel of the Sahara group.[2] He also served as the Editor and CEO to Live India and Mi Marathi. Presently, he hosts prime time news show, DNA (Daily News & Analysis) at Zee News. He was a part of the media that covered the meeting at Islamabad between Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Pervez Musharraf after the terrorist attack on the Loksabha in 2001.[3][4]
Controversy
In 2012, a controversy ensued after sitting Congress MP and steel baron Naveen Jindal, chairman of Jindal Steel & Power, released a grainy tape which allegedly captured an attempt made by two employees of Zee News to blackmail him. Jindal alleges that two senior staffers of Zee news, namely Sudhir Chaudhary and Sameer Ahluwalia, acting at the behest of Subhash Chandra (promoter of Zee News), approached him with what was in effect an instance of blackmail. The two staffers allegedly said that they had a lot of negative information about Jindal's business activities, and that they would air the same on Zee News unless Jindal paid them a large sum of money, reported to be one billion rupees.[1] Jindal supposedly made a recording of the alleged blackmail attempt, released the tape to the media, and lodged a police complaint.[5]
In 2007, Sudhir Chaudhary was head of a now-defunct channel called Janmat. It was shut down after Chaudhary allegedly ran a fake sting operation on a school teacher for supposedly running a sex racket, as a result of which she was attacked by a mob on camera.[6]
References
- ^ a b "Zee News senior editor Sudhir Chaudhary gets X-category security". The Economic Times.
- ^ "Latest News India, Live Breaking News Regional News, World Top Headlines, Business, Politics, Sports, Bollywood". Sahara Samay. Retrieved 2014-05-25.
- ^ "exchange4media >> Dialogue >> Sudhir Chaudhary".
- ^ "Sudhir Chaudhary bids adieu to Live India".
- ^ ZEE-Jindal sting operation: Naveen Jindal unveils ZEE News blackmailing. 28 October 2012 – via YouTube.
- ^ "Look who's calling us anti-national! The pleasant antecedents of Sudhir Chaudhary and journalistic ethics of IBN 7". Kafila.org. Retrieved 17 March 2016.