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Live India is an India
n Hindi TV channel owned by Broadcast Initiatives Ltd., focusing on news and commentary. It was earlier known as Janmat, when it was focused on "views"; now the channel is sometimes called Live India (Janmat).
In a Rs. 400 million upgrade in August 2007,
it opened news bureaus at Lucknow
, Srinagar
,
Chandigarh
, Bhopal, Ahmedabad
, Hyderabad, Bangalore
, Chennai
, Bhubaneswar
,
Kolkata
and Guwahati
as well as its earlier offices at Mumbai
and Delhi
.
Sudhir Chaudhary is the CEO of Live India.
involving school girls. A lady in Vivek Vihar, where the teacher Uma Khurana used to teach at a girl's school, gave
the lead to the channel, after which the reporter, acting as a customer,
fixed up a meeting with
Mrs. Khurana at Cross River mall in late August.
The footage aired shows Khurana negotiating a
deal of Rs. 4,000 for the girl’s “services”. He paid Rs. 400 to her and she handed
over the 15-year-old girl, an ex-student at her earlier school.
Later, the girl was taken into confidence,
and revealed that Khurana's method was to serve the students a drink
laced with drugs
after which she would take pictures of them in an obscene pose. These were later used by her to blackmail students into prostitution.
The day following the broadcast, a crowd of several hundred people gathered at the school. After burning a police van parked nearby, they entered the school premises,
pulled the teacher out of the teacher's room, and thrashed her badly.
This led to
calls for sting operations being curtailed. The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting,
which has been trying to stifle sting operations, especially against politicians,
said that “It
should have been left to the police to take action against the accused.”
Meanwhile, the role of Live India, the channel which aired the sting is being scrutinised by the police. The police had arrested, Khurana, a teacher at the Government Sarvodaya Kanya Vidyalaya's Daryaganj branch, after the mob violence on Thursday.
But the police and parents claim that the channel's approach in broadcasting the expose was wrong. It is believed the channel had conducted the sting over a month back, when Khurana was a teacher at the Vivek Vihar branch of the school.
Sudarshan tv news'Sudarshan News
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
n Hindi TV channel owned by Broadcast Initiatives Ltd., focusing on news and commentary. It was earlier known as Janmat, when it was focused on "views"; now the channel is sometimes called Live India (Janmat).
In a Rs. 400 million upgrade in August 2007,
it opened news bureaus at Lucknow
Lucknow
Lucknow is the capital city of Uttar Pradesh in India. Lucknow is the administrative headquarters of Lucknow District and Lucknow Division....
, Srinagar
Srinagar
Srinagar is the summer seasonal capital of Jammu and Kashmir. It is situated in Kashmir Valley and lies on the banks of the Jhelum River, a tributary of the Indus. It is one of the largest cities in India not to have a Hindu majority. The city is famous for its gardens, lakes and houseboats...
,
Chandigarh
Chandigarh
Chandigarh is a union territory of India that serves as the capital of two states, Haryana and Punjab. The name Chandigarh translates as "The Fort of Chandi". The name is from an ancient temple called Chandi Mandir, devoted to the Hindu goddess Chandi, in the city...
, Bhopal, Ahmedabad
Ahmedabad
Ahmedabad also known as Karnavati is the largest city in Gujarat, India. It is the former capital of Gujarat and is also the judicial capital of Gujarat as the Gujarat High Court has its seat in Ahmedabad...
, Hyderabad, Bangalore
Bangalore
Bengaluru , formerly called Bengaluru is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. Bangalore is nicknamed the Garden City and was once called a pensioner's paradise. Located on the Deccan Plateau in the south-eastern part of Karnataka, Bangalore is India's third most populous city and...
, Chennai
Chennai
Chennai , formerly known as Madras or Madarasapatinam , is the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, located on the Coromandel Coast off the Bay of Bengal. Chennai is the fourth most populous metropolitan area and the sixth most populous city in India...
, Bhubaneswar
Bhubaneswar
Bhubaneswar is the capital of the Indian state of Orissa, officially Odisha. The city has a long history of over 2000 years starting with Chedi dynasty who had Sisupalgarh near present-day Bhubaneswar as their capital...
,
Kolkata
Kolkata
Kolkata , formerly known as Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River, it was the commercial capital of East India...
and Guwahati
Guwahati
Guwahati, Pragjyotishpura in ancient Assam formerly known as Gauhati is a metropolis,the largest city of Assam in India and ancient urban area in North East India, with a population of 963,429. It is also the largest metropolitan area in north-eastern India...
as well as its earlier offices at Mumbai
Mumbai
Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...
and Delhi
Delhi
Delhi , officially National Capital Territory of Delhi , is the largest metropolis by area and the second-largest by population in India, next to Mumbai. It is the eighth largest metropolis in the world by population with 16,753,265 inhabitants in the Territory at the 2011 Census...
.
Sudhir Chaudhary is the CEO of Live India.
Schoolteacher sending girl students into prostitution 'expose'
On August 28 2007, the channel aired a sting operation covering a porn racket run by a schoolteacher in DelhiDelhi
Delhi , officially National Capital Territory of Delhi , is the largest metropolis by area and the second-largest by population in India, next to Mumbai. It is the eighth largest metropolis in the world by population with 16,753,265 inhabitants in the Territory at the 2011 Census...
involving school girls. A lady in Vivek Vihar, where the teacher Uma Khurana used to teach at a girl's school, gave
the lead to the channel, after which the reporter, acting as a customer,
fixed up a meeting with
Mrs. Khurana at Cross River mall in late August.
The footage aired shows Khurana negotiating a
deal of Rs. 4,000 for the girl’s “services”. He paid Rs. 400 to her and she handed
over the 15-year-old girl, an ex-student at her earlier school.
Later, the girl was taken into confidence,
and revealed that Khurana's method was to serve the students a drink
laced with drugs
after which she would take pictures of them in an obscene pose. These were later used by her to blackmail students into prostitution.
The day following the broadcast, a crowd of several hundred people gathered at the school. After burning a police van parked nearby, they entered the school premises,
pulled the teacher out of the teacher's room, and thrashed her badly.
This led to
calls for sting operations being curtailed. The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting,
which has been trying to stifle sting operations, especially against politicians,
said that “It
should have been left to the police to take action against the accused.”
Meanwhile, the role of Live India, the channel which aired the sting is being scrutinised by the police. The police had arrested, Khurana, a teacher at the Government Sarvodaya Kanya Vidyalaya's Daryaganj branch, after the mob violence on Thursday.
But the police and parents claim that the channel's approach in broadcasting the expose was wrong. It is believed the channel had conducted the sting over a month back, when Khurana was a teacher at the Vivek Vihar branch of the school.
Court Verdict
On Wednesday, 12 September 2007, The high court in the Indian capital, Delhi, has ordered that a schoolteacher who was sacked after a fake television "sting" operation must be reinstated. A police investigation later revealed the sting had been faked and the teacher falsely accused. The undercover journalist, Prakash Singh, who made the report was arrested. Police later questioned staff at the Live India news channel which broadcast the secretly-filmed tape on 30 August. Announcing her bail, the judge said she had been "more of a victim than an offender".Government Ban
The Indian Government banned the channel for a month due to the false sting. It was banned because it breached the Cable Networks Regulation Act, 1995, by broadcasting an admittedly doctored sting operation.Competitors
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