Sting operation: Channel CMD, reporter summoned

NEW DELHI: A city court on Thursday summoned the chairman and managing director (CMD) and chief executive officer (CEO) and former reporter of LIVE INDIA, a private news channel, to appear before it April 7 in the defamation case filed by Uma Khurana, a government school teacher involved in the fake sting operation purporting to expose a prostitution racket involving schoolgirls being allegedly run by her.
 
Metropolitan Magistrate Sanjay Jindal summoned the CMD, CEO Sudhir Chaudhary and reporter Prakash Singh to appear personally before it April 7.

Sarvodaya Kanya Vidyalaya teacher Uma Khurana after suffering from mental agony for almost two months filed a criminal defamation suit against the private news channel. 

In her complaint filed against the TV channel and its CEO, Khurana said she has undergone untold mental agony, harassment, humiliation and earned a bad name in the eyes of the public and society.

In her complaint she also said that Sudhir Chaudhary had full knowledge that this fake sting would defame her if aired (it was aired on Aug 30), and yet went ahead with broadcasting it with the mala fide intent of maligning her.

Soon after the sting operation was aired on the channel, violence broke out in Daryaganj area of Delhi where the school is located. An angry mob not only assaulted the teacher, but damaged public property before the police rescued her.