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School scandal: police team off to Mumbai

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI, DEC. 11. Investigations by the Delhi police into the reported sale of a pornographic film, in which the escapades of two students of a prominent public school of Delhi were filmed on a mobile camera phone and circulated through multi-media messaging service (MMS) via an auction portal, are yet to gather momentum.

A team led by the Assistant Commissioner of Police, Shankar Dhar Mishra, of the Economic Offences Wing, has left for Mumbai to question officials of the Baazee.com portal in question. A Kharagpur-based agency, Alice Electronics, had allegedly invited bids for the VCD through the site in question. There were also reports that a team would be sent to Kharagpur to question officials of the agency involved. However, no formal questioning has apparently taken place yet.

A senior police officer said today that investigations into the case would require questioning everybody involved in the entire episode. The case was registered after Delhi's Police Commissioner, K.K. Paul, took cognisance of media reports about the MMS clipping being in circulation in the sleaze market. Senior police officers have already expressed their concern over the free availability of the video- clipping.

Some unscrupulous elements converted the clipping into a VCD and floated it in the market. While the concerned students were suspended from the school, a case was not registered.

Subsequently, the clipping started circulating in the market and many news channels showed how these were being openly sold. In fact, news channels showed agents selling pornographic VCDs using the 157-seconds clipping as a USP.

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