ZEE News sacks channel editor, Dinesh Sharma over corruption allegations

Dinesh Sharma has been removed as ZEE News Channel’s Punjab, Haryana, and Himachal editor according to media reports. It was discovered that Sharma was using his position to broadcast fake news and extort influential people for money.

These are not the first such allegations against Sharma, in 2018, former Punjab Cabinet Minister, Bikram Singh Majithia publicly accused Sharma of demanding Rs 20 crore from him in return for favourable reportage on the SAD Party in the run up to the 2017 Punjab Assembly.