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New Delhi, June 11
The Noida Police arrested two journalists for allegedly blackmailing a news channel’s owner and extorting money from him.
The complainant, Jagdish Chandra (75), owner of Bharat24 in Noida’s Sector 62, alleged that the woman, Shazia Nisar, had been threatening to implicate him in a false rape case unless he paid her Rs 65 crore. Adarsh Jha who used to work for a digital portal till a few days ago has been helping her.
The police stated that three separate cases have been filed in this case.
The accused had extorted Rs 2.26 crore from the owner of the news channel by blackmailing and threatening to implicate him in a false case if he did not pay the remaining amount (Rs 62.74 crore).
The police stated that following the FIR, the police teams raided Nisar’s home in Delhi and arrested her. The police claimed that Rs 34.50 lakh in cash, three mobile phones, two laptops, and a Scorpio car were seized from her home. The police, simultaneously, raided Jha’s home at Indirapuram, Ghaziabad, and arrested him.
According to police, Chandra had also filed a complaint against Nisar’s mother. She has not been arrested, police added.
