Police to submit report on sting operation tomorrow

New Delhi, Sep 9 (UNI) The Delhi Police is likely to submit tomorrow a report on the 'fake' sting operation carried out by the TV channel 'Live India' depicting a government school teacher pushing students into prostitution.

The report will detail the contradictions on the TV channel's sting operation, police sources said.

Many contradictions were found after studying the original tape of the sting operation and the mobile records of the teacher Uma Khurana and the channel reporter Prakash Singh, sources said.

For example, they said the reporter had called Uma Khurana several times on July 19, the day the sting operation was carried out but she did not attend the calls.

''This shows that she was not inclined to supply girls,''the sources said.

The police also plan to study the mobile records of the reporter Prakash Singh and Rashmi Singh, shown as the girl victim in the sting operation.

They said the Delhi Police would seek ''production warrant'' of Uma Khurana tomorrow in order to get her voice sample, which would be matched with that in the video recording. They also intend to seek custody for Uma Khurana and Prakash Singh so that they could be interrogated together.

Yesterday, Sudhir Chaudhary, CEO 'Live India', was questioned for about one and a half hours.

''He told the police that the reporter, Prakash Singh, did not take the channel into confidence about any of his 'manipulations' or that he knew the girl or her identity.'' Instead, he said she was a hooker, as his 'operation' showed, he said.

Prakash Singh was arrested yesterday by Crime Branch sleuths, a day after the 'victim' Rashmi was arrested.

Working for 'Live India' channel, Prakash Singh had shown Uma Khurana, a mathematics teacher of the Sarvodaya Kanya Vidyalaya, in the sting 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 in Central Delhi's Daryaganj area on August 30.

UNI