Should Sting Operations be Carried Out?

I'm agree with Jatin Bhatia, but my views is that, when any journalist conducts stings operation, sometimes they reacts in such a way, or you can say, they set the game plan to trap innocent people also. I have came through with various such kind of operations where, Traps has been set under several catch to make innocents guilty. So, while talking about such operations, we need to reveal the steps are action taken by the personnel, please do allow me your opinions regarding the same.

Hello friends,

As per as I am concerned with sting operation should not be carried out because most of the time it gives the result in favor of wrongdoing people and in that case innocent people come in the category of corruption and unethical things.

When law enforcement try to catch a thief by luring him but it entices most of the time that person who have not done anything wrong in his whole life.

At-last the main point is to catch a thief is good thing but without catching a decent person.

Thank you.

HI everyone. I am a journalist in a private channel. I saw your discussions and most of them were supporting the sting operations. I am happy for it and I want to know about my sting operation plans and need to ask whether they are ethical or not. I am not mentioning my name or place because it might invite trouble ;).

1. ) Approaching a Thaluka office and applying for a fake community certificate where an VAO gets bribe for doing so.

2. ) Giving pollution free certificate by state pollution control board for an old vehicle which emits pollution by getting bribe and RTO.

Its my pleasure if you can also provide some ideas for some issues.

In my opinion sting operation is a fantastic tool not for the media but for a common too for catching anybody red handed. It can be used for throwing light on the topics likes corruption, bribe and frauds. So, I am in favor of sting operation.

I would like to share my views on sting operation. Sting operation is the operation which carried to reveal the truth. It is one of the correct methods to prove his/her innocence. Now a days, there are many cases like scam, bribe, crime so string operation is the one through which we can prove these cases legally. Therefore, from my point of view Sting Operation is essential.

As per my view, sting operation is a legal action, we are only talks about our constitutional rights but we can not ignore our fundamental duties. The Constitution [Part-IVA] lays down certain fundamental duties for the citizens of this country and Article 51A (b) provides that it is the duty of every citizen of India to cherish and follow the noble ideals which inspired our national struggle for freedom. One of the noble ideals of our national struggle for freedom was to have an independent and corruption free India. The other duties assigned to the citizen by the Constitution is to uphold and protect the sovereignty, unity and integrity of India and I consider that sovereignty, unity and integrity of this country cannot be protected and safeguarded if the corruption is not removed from this country. So that why we can say that if sting operations necessary tool.

There is nothing wrong in carrying a string operations if it follows the journalistic ethics all the time.Also not all type of matters demand a string operation.There is no need to carry a string operation only to privy in the private life of a superstar to improve the TRP of your channel.The string operation should have a target of greater public and national interest to pursue.Then only it can be justified.

According to me Sting Operations are undertook with a view to look into the working of the government or to see whether the acts of any individual is against the public order. On the basis of the purpose Sting Operations can be classified as positive and negative. Positive Sting Operation is one which results in the interest of the society, which pierces the veils of the working of the government. It is carried out in the public interest. Due to positive sting operation society is benefited because it makes government responsible and accountable. It leads to the transparency in the government. On the other hand negative sting operations do not benefit the society, but they do harm the society and its individuals. It unnecessarily violates the privacy of the individual without any beneficial results to the society. These types of Sting operations if allowed then it will hamper the freedom of the individuals and restricts their rights. Here are some examples which we can distinguish as positive and negative sting operations.

Yes sting operations MUST be carried out, but only to expose a suspected corrupt person NOT to prove an immatured, inexperienced, frustated youngster as a corrupt man, simply to earn some unethical advantage out of it. If such is the case. We must come down to such sting operators very harshly.

Hi Friends,

As per my perception, Sting Operation is one of the best formula to rein the corrupt politicians, bureaucrats or the corrupt organisation and etc. The said operation is so sophisticated if used carefully and religiously.

But country like India, there is lot of anomalies, discrepancies, bias are there in wiping the corrupts one.

In Most cases who have been caught in such operation, who has not given some percentage/share to the operationer or they have no support of a big hand.

It is good if used religiously for the prog of nation.