The Broadcast Editors Association suspended Chaudhary as its treasurer in the wake of these charges, saying that Chaudhary had acted in a manner prejudicial to the interests and objectives of the Association. The two were sent to 14-day judicial custody in Tihar jail but were released on bail. In November 2012, Chaudhary and his colleague Sameer Ahluwalia were arrested on charges of extortion after businessman Naveen Jindal alleged that the two journalists had tried to extort ₹100 Crore worth of advertisements from his company in exchange for dropping stories that linked the Jindal Group with the Coalgate scam. In 2012 he rejoined Zee News, where he hosts the news show Daily News & Analysis (DNA). He also joined India TV for a brief time. He was instrumental in the launch of Sahara Samay, the Hindi news channel of the Sahara group. Chaudhary was told to have been in the squad which has covered the Vajpayee– Musharraf Indo-Pak meeting at Islamabad, after the Lok Sabha attack in 2001. Belonging to the first generation of television journalists, he was in live television reporting and then 24 hours news television. Chaudhary has been working in the television news industry since the 1990s.
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