Rashmi Singh
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Rashmi Singh is an aspiring journalist of Live India news channel. She came into limelight when she conducted a fake sting operation. In the sting conducted by local news channel Live India on a government school teacher August 31, 2007. Rashmi Singh had posed as a schoolgirl alleging Uma Khurana, a teacher at the Sarvodaya Kanya Vidyalaya School in Delhi, pushed her and other girls into prostitution.
On September 7, 2007, She was charged with cheating, fabricating evidence and conspiracy, and was detained by the Delhi Police.
Uma Khurana, a mathematics teacher of the school, was arrested on August 31, 2007 after the channel telecast the sting operation purportedly showing that she was running a syndicate of making pornographic films featuring her present and former girl students. The teacher was attacked by the mob and she was sacked from her job.
Editor-in-Chief of The Pioneer Chandan Mitra said "This is what gives sting operations a bad name. Stings have done so much good by exposing corruption but incidents like these will only give a chance to those looking to put more regulation in place for the media."
