Reporters Without Orders Ep 362: Decoding the Kiran Bedi tapes

This week, host Shivnarayan Rajpurohit is joined by Newslaundry’s Sumedha Mittal and independent journalist Anand Mangnale.

Sumedha and Anand break down their investigation on Kiran Bedi’s use of public resources for surveilling her daughter. They say the decorated IPS officer not only “misused her powers in doing so”, but also covered up her alleged misdeeds by presenting herself as a “helpless, concerned mother”.

Kiran Bedi left “no room for differentiation between helping somebody and breaking the law for them,” they add.

They also highlight how a possible lead about the sexual assault of a Swiss diplomat in 2003, discovered during the surveillance op, was never communicated to the special investigation team probing the assault.

Tune in.

Timecodes

00:00:00 - Introduction

00:01:39 - Kiran Bedi Tapes

00:25:35 - Recommendations

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Produced and edited by Saif Ali Ekram, recorded by Anil Kumar.

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