Tehelka fabricated evidence, blackmailed Army officers and manipulated video images to tarnish the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government, Defence Minister George Fernandes and the Army, reveals a book, The Tehelka Trap, released on Wednesday.
Authored by well-known investigative journalist and Consulting Editor of The Pioneer, Wilson John, the book reveals, for the first time, the real story behind tehelka's "Operation West End" - how it procured and used sex workers, how it trapped the Army officers, how it heaped lies upon lies in its alleged sensational video film, "Operation West End", made public on March 13, 2001.