Minutes after two Zee News editors Sudhir Chaudhary and Samir Ahluwalia, facing charges of attempt to extortion, were sent to 14 days' judicial custody by a city court, Chaudhary's wife Neeti alleged Ahluwalia and her husband were implicated in the case by the Delhi Police under 'political pressure'.

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