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No 'real act' was involved in sex angle: Tejpal

Editor-in-Chief of tehelka.com Tarun Tejpal has said that though the news portal had used sex workers in its sting operations, it did not involve any "real act in the Clintonian sense".

"No real act took place in the Clintonian sense," Tejpal said in a programme, which will be telecast by SAB TV 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 prostitutes by his news portal.

Tejpal, however, admitted that the use of prostitutes in its sting operation was an "ethical transgression" and asserted that the Web site would never "do anything like that again".

"It was an ethical transgression, an error, but we should not lose the big story in the process," he said.

He said one of the sex workers was aware of "what we were doing" but the "other one was not".

Denying charges made by an army officer's wife that her husband was pressurised and was an unwilling victim of the sting operations, he said, "Anybody can make that sort of charges."

PTI

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