A Delhi court on Wednesday dismissed the bail plea of two senior journalists of Zee News channel and remanded them to two-day police custody on a complaint by Congress MP Naveen Jindal's group for trying to extort Rs.100 crore for not broadcasting news reports on the coal scam linking his firm.

Sudhir Chaudhary, head of Zee News, and Samir Ahluwalia, Editor of Zee Business, who were arrested for allegedly trying to extort money from Jindal's group, were produced before Metropolitan Magistrate Gomati Manocha, who accepted police's plea for their custodial interrogation.