Uma Khurana sting: Journalist arrested

New Delhi, Sep 7: The Crime Branch today arrested a local television reporter, who had conducted a 'sting operation' on a government school teacher, depicting her as running a prostitution racket, allegedly with malafide intentions.

The reporter Prakash Singh of 'Live India' channel was arrested, a day after the girl who posed as a victim of the racket, was nabbed.

The girl has been charged with cheating, fabrication of evidence and criminal conspiracy, police said.

Uma Khurana, a mathematics teacher of the Sarvodaya Kanya Vidyalaya, was shown in the sting operation, as running a syndicate of prostitution and making pornographic films, featuring her present and former girl students.

The airing of the episode had led to mob violence near Turkman Gate on August 30.

Singh is the fourth person to be arrested in the case. Both Uma, her alleged accomplice Virendra Arora, arrested earlier are under judicial custody.

UNI