NEW DELHI: A week after a so-called sting operation by a private TV channel led to public humiliation and disgrace for a maths teacher of a government school, the entire operation has turned out to be a hoax and a blatant attempt to frame the teacher. The crime branch of Delhi Police on Thursday arrested the very girl who had been depicted as a schoolgirl being offered by the teacher to a client — the reporter — for money. The unedited tapes of the entire episode revealed to the cops how the teacher, Uma Khurana, was actually a victim.
The girl, who was earlier reported to be neither a schoolgirl, nor a prostitute, was arrested under the charge of giving false evidence after the investigators watched the unedited tapes and recorded the statement of the journalist.
The police refused to divulge the identity of the girl but the arrest clearly suggests that the police have found no evidence against Khurana, something that has become increasingly clear over the past few days. The girl has beenarrested under Section 192 (fabricating evidence), 193 (punishment for false evidence), 211 (false charges with intention to injure), 419 (impersonation) and 420 (cheating) of IPC.
The cops said they were on the verge of registering a case against the reporter who conducted the entire operation for giving false evidence and accusing Khurana of being a pimp supplying girls from the school where she was earlier teaching.
The airing of the episode featuring Sarvodaya Kanya Vidyalaya, Vivek Vihar, had led to mob violence for about four hours near its branch at Turkman Gate last Thursday.
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