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Delhi sex sting reporter a criminal, says editor
Published on Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 17:24 in India section
Tags: Sting Operation, Sex Scandal , New Delhi
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New Delhi: The CEO and Editor of the Live India television news channel that broadcast a fake sting operation that purported to show the alleged involvement of a teacher in a prostitution racket and set off a riot in the process said the reporter who carried out the investigation was a “criminal and breached the trust”.
“The reporter kept me in dark and breached the trust. He is a criminal and a hazard for journalism,” Live India editor Sudhir Chaudhary said.
“As the head of the channel, I owe responsibility, but there is no reason why I should trust him (now). He cheated me, Uma Khurana and Rashmi Singh. I issued a show-cause notice to him on September 2 after reading newspaper reports and he gave us a handwritten reply defending the sting,” Chaudhary said.
The reporter, Prakash Singh, is currently in the custody of Delhi Police.
He was arrested on Friday on charges of cheating, fabrication of evidence and criminal conspiracy after he allegedly tried to frame Uma Khurana, a mathematics teacher of Sarvodaya Kanya Vidyalaya in central Delhi.
After the purported sting was shown on Live India, hundreds of angry people manhandled her and later the Delhi Education Department sacked her from her job. Taking note of the TV report, Delhi Police arrested Khurana under the Immoral Trafficking Prevention Act.
Live India is the new name of Janmaat channel, promoted by Broadcast Initiatives Ltd of Markand Adhikari. Janmaat was a predominantly ‘views channel’ earlier till it re-launched itself in the form of Live India, a 24x7 news channel, on August 3.
Since then Live India was focusing less on programmes, discussions and more on live news and adopted a tagline Khabar Hamari Faisla Aapka (news ours, decision yours).
Chaudhary, who was earlier the executive editor of Rajat Sharma-owned India TV, joined as the editor and CEO of the channel in March this year.
Expressing helplessness over the situation, Chaudhary said: “I wish I were in a different situation and asking questions, not answering them. We have suspended the reporter till the police reach a conclusion.”
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In my point of view this issue should be left alone for a while . Because there are a few
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close this channel and stone the reporter..arrest the channel promoter.
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The police in India is absolutely shameless force.
Yesterday a Sr. Police Official from Delhi is quoted (Mumbai Mirror pg 16)
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The CEO/ editor cannot escape moral responsibility. Recently we are seeing that news channels in an attempt to get TRP
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I was looking at the picture attached with this news. We can clearly identify people who manhandled Uma Khurana. Will
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