Uma Khurana not guilty - It happened five years ago, in August 2007. Remember Uma Khurana? She was a mathematics teacher at the Government Girls’s School in Old Delhi, and was almost lynched by a mob after a sting operation alleged, she had blackmailed her students into prostitution. She was just an ordinary public-school teacher, but suddenly out of nothing – within 24 hours – she had been dismissed by the Education Department, mobbed, arrested and charged under the Immoral Trafficking Prevention Act – all based on so-called “facts” uncovered by a TV sting operation. She was accused of forcing her students into prostitution. When it aired, the story provoked predictable public outrage. Uma Khurana was set upon by an enraged mob. But it turned out, that the story was just lies. A simple investigation and viewing of the unedited tapes led the police to declare the “scandal” a hoax. Uma Khurana had been framed by a businessman who claimed she owed him money. The ambitious young reporter, the “victim” and the businessman were arrested on charges including fabricating evidence, impersonation and cheating. The case had been transferred to the Delhi High Court, which had granted bail to Uma Khurana. Later she was formally cleared.

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