An ethical transgression, admits Tejpal

NEW DELHI, AUG 29. The editor-in-chief of Tehelka.Com, Mr. Tarun Tejpal has said that though the news portal had used sex workers in its sting operations, it did not involve any `real act.'

``No real act took place. There is a lot of horseplay,'' Mr. Tejpal said participating in the `Line of Fire' programme to be telecast by a private TV channel on September one. He was responding to a question on whether it was proper to have secretly filmed the sexual acts of army officers, who were supplied with sex workers by his news portal.

Mr. Tejpal, however, admitted that the use of sex workers in its sting operation was an ``ethical transgression'' and asserted that the Website would never again ``use anything like that.''

``It was an error, but we should not lose the big story in the process,'' he said.

- PTI

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