The company refuted the allegations and accused the CBI of "concerted harassment of NDTV and its promoters based on the same old endless false accusations". We will not succumb to these attempts to blatantly undermine democracy and free speech in India," NDTV said in a statement. The CBI said the investigation had no link to the editorial line of NDTV, India's oldest English-language all-news channel. "We have nothing against NDTV's news coverage ... they are accused of a financial fraud and it's our duty to investigate," a senior CBI official said. Senior officials in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's office and members of his nationalist BJP have told Reuters they consider NDTV to be the least-government friendly channel.

Source: bd News24 June 05, 2017 15:33 UTC