A court here has directed Delhi Police to collect voice samples of editors of the Zee media group in the presence of experts in a case of extortion from a company of Congress leader Naveen Jindal.
Additional Sessions Judge Bharat Parashar ordered police to collect the voice samples of Zee editors Samir Ahluwalia and Sudhir Chaudhary in the presence of experts from the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL).
The court was hearing a revision plea filed by the editors seeking the court’s direction for collection of voice samples in the presence of a judicial magistrate.
“It will be appropriate if the CFSL experts at the CBI laboratory are directed to prepare a text intermixed with sufficient sentences from the questioned text which may facilitate the examination of voice sample identification by them (Zee editors),” the court said in the order delivered Monday which was made available Wednesday.
It observed that the procedure will strike a fine balance between the rights of the accused people and the state in carrying out a proper and fair investigation.
The Zee editors along with group chairman Subhash Chandra are facing charges of forgery and attempting to extort money from Jindal’s company JSPL in exchange for not filing news reports linking his firm to the coal block allocation in 2012.