Sting operation: Court sends reporter to 2-day JC

NEW DELHI: A city court here on Thursday remanded a news channel reporter, arrested in connection with a sting operation involving a local school teacher in an alleged prostitution racket, to two days' judicial custody.

Allowing the application of the Crime Branch, Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) Alok Aggarwal remanded Live India reporter Prakash Singh to judicial custody till September 15.

Prakash on Thursday was produced in the court after the expiry of his five days judicial custody in the alleged fake sting operation, which had resulted in large-scale violence in Old Delhi.

Murari Tiwari, the counsel of Prakash Singh, told the court that there was not an iota of evidence against him. "I wanted to know under what offence my client has been kept in the judicial custody? How they have made-out the section 420 (cheating) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) against Prakash," he asked.

The court gave two days time to the Additional Public Prosecutor (APP) to explain the reasons of invoking the section 420 of IPC against Singh.

However, the APP Prakash Bhatia, sought two-days judicial custody of Singh and argued that the public at large has been deceived by this so-called sting operation and it was not done in the interest of the society.