Asked whether the police would now request the court to dismiss the false charges against Khurana, a senior police official who spoke on condition of anonymity said she would most likely be out on bail.
The police have decided not to oppose the bail plea. They could not cancel the charges against Khurana by themselves, the official added, because the matter was now in court, and the decision would have to be taken by the judiciary.
Khurana, who had been remanded in judicial custody before it was found that the TV sting was fake, was arrested due to pressure from the public and education officials after the channel Live India showed what they claimed was an investigative report into a school prostitution ring in which she was the alleged kingpin.
The teacher in the government-run Sarvodaya Kanya Vidyalaya at Asaf Ali Road in central Delhi was arrested “under direct pressure of the public and indirect pressure from some state officials”, the senior official said. The airing of the report triggered violence. Khurana was assaulted in public and her clothes torn off.
The Delhi government, acting quickly on the purported sting report, sacked Khurana without a proper inquiry.
Delhi Police officials later accepted that they had not found any evidence against her.
Personal enmity
“Investigations reveal that she was framed by television reporter Prakash Singh on behalf of a businessman, Virender Arora, who had a personal enmity with Khurana,” said another police official.
“Prakash also involved Rashmi Singh, an aspiring journalist who acted as a schoolgirl in the sting,” said the official investigating the matter.
“Except for the prima facie evidence (now found to be doctored) received on the tapes supplied by the news channel in which Uma is found accepting money for arranging a prostitute for the sting operator, journalist Prakash Singh, we have no other  evidence on record against her,” the official added.
Police arrested Prakash and Rashmi on charges of cheating, fabrication of evidence and criminal conspiracy.