Zee News alleges collusion between Jindal and police as 2nd FIR is registered

NEW DELHI: Steel magnate and Member of Parliament Naveen Jindal has filed a second first information report against Zee News Ltd.

According to Zee News, this FIR is a repeat performance of an earlier FIR by Jindal "in as much as it is full of similar falsities and over reach of extant provisions of the Indian Penal Code and taken on board in toto by Delhi Police without any effort to ascertain preliminary facts".

The second FIR, like the FIR on 2 October 2012 which was accepted by Delhi Police around midnight of a national holiday, was accepted late at night at 21:30 hrs.

Zee News Counsel Vijay Aggarwal said: ?This FIR is a counter offensive to investigation ordered by the court to be conducted by SHO Tughlak road. The contents of FIR are a figment of imagination, malafide and oppressive. Common citizen are not able to get FIR registered for their genuine grievances but this series of FIR on flimsy grounds show how Delhi Police is trying to please politicians?.

Zee News has now vowed to pursue every single legal and journalistic remedy to expose what it calls the "collusion between Naveen Jindal, MP, and Police / State Authorities". ZNL appeals to all opinion leaders to "intercede as they deem fit".