By IANS
New Delhi : Uma Khurana, a government schoolteacher who was granted bail Monday after being falsely framed in a fake sting operation of a television news channel, was Tuesday questioned by Delhi Police’s Crime Branch.
“We have questioned Uma Khurana in the afternoon to take further the probe into the sting operation conducted by a television news channel,” a senior Crime Branch official investigating the matter said.
“She was questioned in detail and was asked to provide all information concerning her, businessman Virender Arora, with whom she had a financial dispute, and television reporter Prakash Singh.
“Khurana was also questioned about Rashmi Singh, who posed as a schoolgirl and victim of the alleged prostitution racket,” the official told IANS.
“We have interrogated her for the first time to know her side of the story. Only on the basis of her statement will we be able to reach any conclusion.”
Khurana, 41, had been arrested last month and remanded in judicial custody following the telecast of the claimed ‘sting operation’ by Live India, a private news channel.
The telecast purportedly showed Khurana, who teaches mathematics at the Sarvodaya Kanya Vidyalaya at Asaf Ali Road in central Delhi, forcing many of her girl students into prostitution and pornography.
Following the telecast a crowd attacked the school and manhandled the teacher, who was dismissed by the state government Sep 1. She was arrested the next day on charges of immoral trafficking.
A week later, it was discovered that the operation was a hoax as the woman shown as the victim was in fact not a student but an aspiring journalist.
Prakash Singh, the journalist behind the fake sting operation, was arrested last week and booked under various sections of the Indian Penal Code, including those related to cheating and criminal conspiracy.