| Coming down on sting operations shown on television channels, the Supreme Court today said these are done for minting money and the issue has to be gone into.
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| “Whether it (sting operation) is in public interest or to make money will have to be examined one day,” a Bench headed by Chief Justice Y K Sabharwal said.
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| Observing that sting operations are generally outsourced, the Bench, also comprising Justices C K Thakker and R V Raveendran, said, “Very often these tapes are sold for lakhs of rupees by those who do the string operation”.
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| Those who conduct sting operation do it with the purpose of minting money and go from one channel to another for selling the CDs/tapes, the Bench said.
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| Without taking the name of Minister of State for Home Affairs Manik Rao Gavit, it referred to the sting operation shown on a TV channel about the conversation between the Union minister and a person lodged in Uttar Pradesh jail.
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| “Recently one channel had shown conversation between a minister and a person in jail. Subsequently nothing was found,” the Bench said.
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| The court’s observation came when senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi mentioned a petition filed by Rajdeep Sardesai, Editor-in-Chief of TV channel CNN-IBN, seeking a stay on Uttar Pradesh Assembly order directing him to appear before it in connection with a breach of privilege charge slammed against him for telecasting a sting operation involving its MLAs. The Bench will hear Sardesai’s plea tomorrow. |
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