Scribe sent to two days police custody

The Additional Public Prosecutor sought two days police remand stating that they have to confront Singh with Khurana as certain material have come on record during the investigation. It would be incomplete without confrontation of both the accused persons, he said.

Opposing the police remand, Murari Tiwari, counsel for Prakash Singh, submitted that the prosecution implanted certain evidence against him. No new fact came on record after his arrest, he contended.

“We are indeed co-operating with the investigating agency so there is no need for taking him into police custody,” Tiwari argued.

Crime Branch had arrested Singh on September 7 and booked him under various sections of Indian Penal Code, including those relating to cheating and criminal conspiracy.

Singh, a reporter of Live India that aired the sting operation last week, was arrested after it reportedly turned out that the girl who appeared in it making allegations against Khurana was not a student but an aspiring journalist.

The Delhi High Court also issued notices to the city government and police after taking suo motu cognisance of media reports that the sting operation was fake and distorted.

The TV sting had resulted in large-scale violence outside a school in Old Delhi where Khurana worked and prompted the Delhi Government to first suspend her and then terminate her services.