Court rejects Chandra's plea for modification of order New Delhi: A Delhi court has dismissed a plea of Zee Group Chairman Subhash Chandra for modifying a court's order directing him to take its prior permission before going abroad in a case of alleged Rs 100 crore extortion bid from MP Naveen Jindal's firm by the two editors of the news channel.

Additional Sessions Judge Daya Prakash said this condition was imposed on Chandra for the purpose of facilitating the pending investigation in the case of alleged extortion bid by Zee News Editor Sudhir Chaudhary and Zee Business Editor Samir Ahluwalia.

The court, after hearing the arguments, dismissed the plea saying, "it is informed that applicant Subhash Chandra is not cooperating with investigation agencies and is also not giving clear and unambiguous answers put by the investigation agency."

"The application filed by the applicant/accused Subhash Chandra for modification in the order dated December 20, 2012 is dismissed," the judge said. Chandra had approached the court for modification of order passed on December 20, 2012 in which Delhi Police was told to give 10 working days time to Chandra and his son...more    
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