Varun Gandhi hate speech case: Sting says witnesses forced to turn hostile

While the witnesses caught on the camera acknowledged being nudged to do so,the report broadcast also showed local leaders from the BJP and the SP suggesting they had prior knowledge of such tactics being employed.

Varun,on his part,rubbished the claims made in the news report and accused Tehelka of holding anti-BJP bias and describing the report as a diversionary tactics. It is clear certain vested interests are not happy with the courts verdict, Varun said in a statement to counter the claims.

The sting operation claimed that the Pilibhit MP had helped SP candidate Riaz Ahmed in the Assembly elections last year against the official BJP nominee and Ahmed had repaid him by getting the witnesses in the hate speech cases to turn hostile.