By IANS
New Delhi : Television news reporter Prakash Singh, who was arrested for allegedly carrying out a fake sting operation showing a woman teacher forcing schoolgirls into prostitution, could also be charged with instigating riots, police said Saturday.
“We are investigating his role in instigating riots. He is most likely to be charged for this offence,” a senior police official told IANS.
Prakash Singh was arrested Friday on charges of cheating, fabrication of evidence and criminal conspiracy after he allegedly tried to frame Uma Khurana, a teacher of Sarvodaya Kanya Vidyalaya at Asaf Ali road in central Delhi, in a false case of Immoral Trafficking Prevention Act.
The telecast of the fake sting last week triggered large-scale violence as hundreds of angry people gathered outside the school and smashed windowpanes of the building demanding Khurana’s immediate arrest. She was assaulted and her clothes torn.
Meanwhile a city court sent Prakash Singh, a reporter with Live India channel, to judicial custody till Sep 15.
“Prakash, reporter of Live India channel, was produced in the court of Ajay Pandey in the Tis Hazari court complex in the afternoon. The judge has remanded him in seven days judicial custody,” said a police official.
Prakash Singh conducted a fake sting operation taking the assistance of an aspiring journalist Rashmi Singh, who acted as a schoolgirl.
The Delhi government, acting quickly on the purported sting report, sacked Khurana.