Special Judge MR Purwar doubted the genuineness of a conversation in which the accused asked the journalist for a bribe in return for a favourable order in his case.
The special court in its 51-page judgment also pulled up Jiah's mother Rabia for giving contradictory statements and destroying the entire prosecution case.
A Special CBI court cancelled the bail granted to Sanjeev Aggarwal, one of the accused in the 2017 Chhattisgarh coal allocation scam case, for approaching a witness.