Updated On: 27 November, 2012 09:46 PM IST | | PTI
Two senior journalists with a leading news channel were arrested in New Delhi on Tuesday on charges of trying to extort Rs 100 crore from Congress MP Naveen Jindal's group for not doing news reports on coal scam linking his firm.
The arrests on charges of extortion came following the registration of a case about 45 days ago on a complaint filed by Jindal's company with Delhi Police's Crime Branch.u00a0
Sudhir Chaudhary, the head of of the news channel, and Samir Ahluwalia, head of it's Business channel, have been arrested, a senior police official said.u00a0