Date:13/09/2007 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/09/13/stories/2007091359481400.htm

National

Clean chit to Uma Khurana

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: The Delhi police on Wednesday gave a clean chit to Delhi Government teacher Uma Khurana in the fake sting operation case, even as the Delhi High Court asked the Union Government what action it planned to take against the private Hindi news channel that conducted the sting.

In a reply to the summoning of the case file relating to Ms. Khurana by the High Court, the police informed a Division Bench comprising Justice M.K. Sharma and Justice Sanjiv Khanna that they had informed the Additional Director of Education of the Delhi Government that “Uma Khurana 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 Bench has asked the Union Government to file a reply to a public interest litigation petition seeking a direction for framing guidelines for sting operations by news channels.