Click to play videoNew Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Friday suggested that a committee of the Information and Broadcasting Ministry check the content of TV sting operations before broadcast.
The court, while suggesting guidelines, suggested that every reporter and news channel doing a sting operation should give an undertaking regarding its veracity.
The court said the editor-in-chief and senior journalists of a TV channel must be more “mature” and “circumspect” while airing sting operations, which must not damage anyone's reputation.
The court’s suggestions come after TV channel Live India’s sting operation against Delhi schoolteacher Uma Khurana was found to be wrong. Khurana, a mathematics teacher of the government Sarvodaya Kanya Vidyalaya in central Delhi’s Daryaganj, was almost lynched by a mob after the sting operation on August 30 alleged she had blackmailed her students into prostitution.
The Delhi Police on September 12 absolved Khurana, and told the Delhi High Court: she “has not been found to be involved in any organised prostitution racket of school girls as shown in the sting operation and that part of the sting operation was stage-managed.”
The High Court had then asked Centre to file a reply to a public interest litigation petition seeking a direction for framing guidelines for sting operations by news channels.
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