The footage on the newscast of Zee News had formed the basis of charges filed by the Delhi Police. In a letter Vishwa Deepak, a journalist working at the channel gave a statement that "our biases made us hear Bhartiya Court Zindabad (Long live Indian courts) as Pakistan Zindabad." Vishwa Deepak later resigned from the channel after expressing reservations over its "biased coverage". Zee News reported that students from the Democratic Students' Union (DSU) raised "anti-India" slogans such as Bharat ki barbadi (Destruction of India) and Pakistan Zindabad (Long live Pakistan) in an event on the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus. Main article: 2016 JNU sedition controversy Cases of fabrication Jawaharlal Nehru University sedition controversy In July 2018, the Jindal Group withdrew the case against Zee News and both parties to the litigation stated that an out of court settlement had been reached which remains undisclosed. Zee News denied the charges and made counter claims of Jindal offering them ₹200,000,000 (equivalent to ₹350 million or US$4.6 million in 2020) to halt their investigations against Jindal Steel's involvement in the scam but filed no charges.
Naveen Jindal had accused the two journalists of trying to extort ₹1,000,000,000 (equivalent to ₹1.8 billion or US$23 million in 2020) in advertisements for Zee News from him through blackmail by threatening to air stories against his company in the Coalgate scam. The two were sent to 14-day judicial custody in Tihar jail and were ultimately released on bail.
Two senior journalists Sudhir Chaudhary and Sameer Ahluwalia were arrested. The channel was tried for allegedly extorting ₹1 billion from the Jindal Group revealed through a sting operation. Controversies and criticism Jindal Group incident Sudhir Chaudhary is the editor-in-chief of Zee News and the anchor of the prime time show on the channel. The chairman of the group is Subhash Chandra, who is a Bharatiya Janata Party-backed member of the Rajya Sabha. In 2013, Zee News Ltd changed its name to Zee Media Corporation Limited. It was demerged as a separate company of the Essel Group in 2006. it was a subsidiary of the Zee Telefilms Ltd (later renamed to Zee Entertainment Enterprises).The company was reincorporated on, as Zee News Ltd. and it was incorporated in Augas Zee Sports Ltd. Zee Media Corporation Limited (formerly Zee News Ltd.) was founded by Essel Group. The channel is subjected to an ongoing criminal defamation case against legislator Mahua Moitra as of March 2020. The channel has been involved in several controversies and has broadcast fabricated news stories on multiple occasions. It launched on 27 August 1999 and is the flagship channel of the Zee Media Corporation. Zee News is an Indian Hindi-language news channel owned by Subhash Chandra's Essel Group. (downscaled to 4:3 576i for the SDTV feed)
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