Sting operation: Court sends reporter to 7-day judicial remand

NEW DELHI: A court on Saturday remanded a news channel reporter, arrested in connection with a sting operation against a school teacher, to seven days' judicial custody.

Magistrate Ajay Pandey remanded 'Live India' reporter Prakash Singh to judicial custody till September 15.

Crime Branch had arrested Singh on Friday and booked him under various sections of Indian Penal Code, including those relating to cheating and criminal conspiracy.

The Crime Branch also sought Singh's presence in the court on Monday to confront him with the school teacher, Uma Khurana, which the court accepted.

Singh, a reporter of 'Live India' that aired the sting operation last week, was arrested after it reportedly turned out that the girl who appeared in it making allegations against Khurana was not a student but an aspiring journalist.

The Delhi High Court on Friday issued notices to the city government and police after taking suo motu cognisance of media reports that the sting operation was fake and distorted.

The TV sting had resulted in large-scale violence outside a school in Old Delhi where Khurana worked and prompted the Delhi Government to first suspend her and then terminate her services.