http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2008-01-17/delhi/27755227_1_uma-khurana-fake-sting-virender-arora
Khurana had filed the petition on November five last year, after being given a clean chit by a court. Khurana's counsel, Amit Kumar, confirmed that the court on their plea issued summons against all the three.
Reporter, 2 others summoned in defamation case over fake sting
NEW DELHI: A court in the Capital issued summons against former TV reporter Prakash Singh and two officials of
a channel in response to a defamation case filed by sacked government school teacher and fake sting victim Uma Khurana.
Metropolitan Magistrate Sanjay Jindal issued summons to fake sting operation accused Singh, CEO of a private new channel Sudheer Chaudhary and its Chief Managing Director, who telecast the fake sting to appear personally before it on April 7.
Khurana had filed the petition on November five last year, after being given a clean chit by a court. Khurana's counsel, Amit Kumar, confirmed that the court on their plea issued summons against all the three.
Earlier, recording her statement before the court Khurana said that the fake sting operation was allegedly carried out by reporter Singh, now sacked from the Channel, with the help of businessman Virender Arora and aspiring journalist Rashmi Singh.
Khurana said the channel's CEO Sudheer Chaudhary and its reporter Singh had full knowledge and reason to believe that
if the fake sting was telecast, it would defame her.
Chaudhury, who is responsible for the day to day affairs of the channel, had "negligently" aired the fake sting on
August 30 last year which enraged the residents and sparked violence near Sarvodaya Kanya Vidyalaya in Darya Ganj, she told the court.
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FIR order against sr cop for sexually harassing junior
MUMBAI: The Esplanade magistrate's court has ordered the state director general of police (DGP) to register an FIR against suspended IPS officer Jawahar Singh for allegedly outraging the modesty of a woman in 2002.
Magistrate D H Sharma issued the directive on May 25 after the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) conducted an inquiry into a sexual harassment allegation levelled by a woman sub-inspector against Singh and directed the state to treat the proceedings as a complaint. "We have just received the court order and will take action accordingly," said a senior police officer.
The court directed the police to register a FIR against Singh for outraging the modesty of woman.
The court said though the victim had lodged a complaint against Singh, the then commissioner of police did not register an FIR "to protect him". The department had declined to cooperate and nail Singh though an inquiry conducted by the then additional commissioner of police, Uddhav Kamble, found him guilty, an official said.
The case dates back to 2002, when the victim worked as a subordinate to Singh at the Anti-Narcotic Cell (ANC) in Cuffe Parade. In her complaint, the woman sub-inspector stated that Singh, who was her immediate superior, would to call her to his cabin unnecessarily, pass lewd comments and make advances. Highlighting a few incidents before the state Women Grievance Redressal Committee, the woman said on March 22, 2002, Singh called her to his cabin on the pretext of "taking a review of a report". When she entered his room, where no one else was around, Singh allegedly said, "aap aaye bahar aayi" and that she "was looking beautiful in that dress". On another occasion, Singh had reportedly told her, "Aapka dupatta zara upar uthana (lift your dupatta)". Two constables who worked under Singh also deposed before the committee and corroborated the victim's charges.
Singh, in his defence, told Kamble that the allegations were baseless and mala fide in nature. Singh told the commission that he was being framed by a big drug mafia. "Singh tried to project the victim as wayward but he failed to provide any evidence on record. He could not even prove that the victim was inefficient in work," an officer said.
Despite repeated attempts Singh was not available for comment.
Singh, an IPS officer of the 1986 batch, has courted controversy even earlier. Last month, home minister R R Patil suspended him for conducting an alleged fake sting operation inside the Aurangabad jail. Using a spy camera, Singh had interviewed 20 prisoners, who had told him that contraband was readily available inside the jail and that the staff manhandled him. However, an inquiry revealed that the interviewees were his men and he conducted the sting to sully the image of the jail superintendent.
Last year, when Singh was the vigilance head of Mhada, the anti-corruption bureau (ACB) caught his subordinate, Deepak Shinde, taking bribe. Shinde was allegedly working at Singh's behest. However, the ACB could not get any evidence against Singh.
Outraging the modesty of a woman: Punishable under Section 509 of IPC
Whoever, intending to insult the modesty of any woman, utters any word, makes any sound or gesture, or exhibits any object, intending that such word or sound shall be heard, of that such gesture or object shall be seen, by such woman, or intrudes upon the privacy of such woman, shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term that may extend to one year, or with fine, or with both.
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Zee news editor suspended after Jindal accuses of extortion
Dailybhaskar.com | Oct 19, 2012
New Delhi: In a major embarrassment for the media group, the Broadcast Editors' Association (BEA) has allegedly removed Zee News editor and business head Sudhir Chaudhary following allegations of extortion attempt made against him.
Naveen Jindal's company had filed an FIR against Zee Business channel for allegedly demanding Rs 50 crore for not doing a news story on coal scam.
In another development, Chairperson of Press Council of India (PCI), Justice Markandey Katju also wrote to the News Broadcasting Standards Authority (NBSA) to probe the allegations against Chaudhary.
Chaudhary held the post of treasurer and primary membership of the BEA, a body of editors from leading TV news channels.
According to reports, the BEA members decided to remove Chaudhary after a secret ballot. In a statement, BEA said: "the three-memberfact-finding committee arrived at the... conclusion that Sudhir Chaudhary is found to have acted in a manner that is unbecoming of an editor and in a fashion that is prejudicial to the interest and objects of the BEA."
Notably, a three-member panel was formed on October 10 to investigate allegations made by JSPL against Zee News.
The panel reached the conclusions after examining audio and video recordings of conversations between JSPL representatives and Chaudhary and his colleague Samir Ahluwalia.
Along with the FIR, JSPL also submitted documents to Katju to claim that Zee’s representatives sought advertisements from JSPL not only for the news broadcaster but also sister company Diligent Media Corporation Ltd (DMCL) that publishes the English daily DNA from Mumbai.
Katju forwarded the complaint NBSA chairperson Justice J S Verma to investigate the matter. NBSA is a redressal body set up by news broadcasters to look into complaints against their members.
In his letter to NBSA chairperson Justice J S Verma, Katju said industrialist and MP Naveen Jindal had met him and complained about the alleged extortion demand from officials of the channel for publicising his version.
Sudhir Chaudhary, the head of Zee Business, rubbished the allegations as "fabrication" and described it as "pressure tactics" to stop doing stories.
In a letter to BEA president Shazi Zaman, he imputed ulterior motives to some members of the committee, and accused them of not giving him proper opportunity to present his case.
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