The Buying of Zaheera Sheikh
Vol 2, Issue 1, Dated - Jan 01, 2005
By Vineet Khare
The Best Bakery trial, which had become symbolic of the quest for justice in Gujrat, has also taken the most exasperating twists over the last couple of years, continually threatening to thwart the truth. In a painstaking month-long investigation, TEHELKA reporter Ashish Khetan blows the lid off the sordid story
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DEATH BY FIRING SQUAD
Vol 4, Issue 18, Dated - May 12, 2007
By Vikram Jit Singh
Yes, that still happens. in democratic, 21st-century India. Ashish Khetan and Harinder Baweja unravel the chilling story of the murder of Sohrabuddin and Kausar Bi by top Gujarat policemen and their bid to cover up the crime
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FAKE KILLINGS: UNWRITTEN STATE POLICY
Vol 4, Issue 19, Dated - May 19, 2007
By Vikram Jit Singh
In Narendra Modi’s Gujarat, the cold-blooded murder of Sohrabuddin and his wife was no aberration. A Tehelka investigation into the killing of another youth, Sameer Khan, lays bare the mammoth cover-up crafted by Modi’s own office. Ashish Khetan and Harinder Baweja unravel the web of lies woven around the gunning down of Khan at point-blank range
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2007

The Truth: Gujarat 2002
Vol 4, Issue 43, Dated - Nov 03, 2007
By Ashish Khetan
How spontaneous mob fury was shown as a premeditated conspiracy by the police who produced fake witnesses by bribing, coercion and torture
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Spycam Expose: Modi Hand in Fake Killings
Vol 4, Issue 19, Dated - May 19, 2007
By Ashish Khetan and Harinder Baweja
In Narendra Modi’s Gujarat, the cold-blooded murder of Sohrabuddin and his wife was no aberration. A Tehelka investigation into the killing of another youth, Sameer Khan, lays bare the mammoth cover-up crafted by Modi’s own office. Ashish Khetan and Harinder Baweja unravel the web of lies woven around the gunning down of Khan at point-blank range
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TOP COP CAUGHT
Vol 4, Issue 15, Dated - Apr 21, 2007
By Ashish Khetan
Maharashtra DGP PS Pasricha has accumulated properties worth crores and undervalued them in his returns. The state’s seniormost cop is also impeding inquiries against shady builders with underworld connections. Ashish Khetan reveals the details in this painstaking exclusive
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EXPOSED: THE UNACCEPTABLE SHAME OF NITHARI
Vol 4, Issue 05, Dated - Feb 10, 2007
By Etmad A. Khan, Mihir Srivastava and Sanjay Dubey
The police was paid and were in cahoots with Moninder Singh Pandher. He financed AC Ist Class fares and doled out favours. In turn, the law-keepers used powerful connections, even calling the chief minister’s brother to escape punishment. A cover-up is still on. After a four-week-long investigation, a Tehelka-Star News exposé by Etmad A. Khan, Mihir Srivastava and Sanjay Dubey
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2006

KILLERS OF THE TRUTH
Vol 3, Issue 39, Dated - Oct 07, 2006
By Vineet Khare and Harinder Baweja
Some were intimidated. Some were paid off, in cash and in kind. Others were just too spineless to stand up for the truth. In a painstaking, three-month undercover operation, Vineet Khare and Harinder Baweja blow the lid off the sordid derailment of justice in a case that has become the nation’s cause celebre
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2005

‘I was offered Rs 25 lakh to remain silent’
Vol 2, Issue 40, Dated - Oct 08, 2005
By Ajmer Singh and Etmad A. Khan
In a painstaking month-long investigation, Ajmer Singh and Etmad A. Khan dig out the middlemen who acted on behalf of politicians and played a treacherous role in threatening and buying off crucial eyewitnesses and victims of the Sikh massacre of 1984
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Exclusive interview with Chhota Rajan
Vol 2, Issue 30, Dated - Jul 30, 2005
By Harinder Baweja
Old colleagues, Dawood IBrahim and Chhota Rajan are today waging a war for control of the Mumbai underworld. Rajan was once lynchpin of D-Company; today he is one of the tools Indian intelligence uses to strike at the Dawood empire. In an exclusive telephone interview from somewhere in Europe, Chhota Rajan reveals how Salman Khan lunched with Dawood in his presence and goes on to claim that Bharat Shah (acquitted on this specific charge) was a front for Dawood’s money. Repeatedly invoking the ‘national interest’ to justify his actions, he also admits to his close linkages with India’s Intelligence Bureau. Excerpts:
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JUSTICE CRIES FOR JUSTICE DENIED
Vol 2, Issue 13, Dated - Apr 02, 2005
By Vikram Jit Singh
Vikram Jit Singh scoops an internal communication from aggrieved Justice BK Roy to Chief Justice of India RC Lahoti imploring the country’s highest judicial authority to strike at those who give the judiciary a bad name, not at those who have tried to cleanse the filth
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Top Cop Nails Gujarat Lie
Vol 2, Issue 10, Dated - Mar 12, 2005
By Hartosh Singh Bal and Mahesh Langa
Gujarat Home Secretary and the government pleader wanted Additional Director General of the state police RB Sreekumar to conceal the truth from the Nanavati-Shah Commission inquiring into the 2002 genocide. The top cop taped the conversation. Hartosh Singh Bal and Mahesh Langa got the tapes. Their report
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“ WE PAID ZAHEERA SHEIKH RS 18 LAKH ”
Vol 2, Issue 01, Dated - Jan 01, 2005
By Ashish Khetan
The Best Bakery trial, which had become symbolic of the quest for justice in Gujarat, has also taken the most exasperating twists over the last couple of years, continually threatening to thwart the truth. In a painstaking month-long investigation, TEHELKA reporter Ashish Khetan blows the lid off the sordid story
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2004

CAPTAIN PERIL
Vol 1, Issue 46, Dated - Dec 18, 2004
By Kumar Baadal, New Delhi
A Tehelka sting operation nets 10 flying hours without the need to step into a cockpit, and a student pilot’s licence with a Rs 1 lakh bribe. More money can fetch you an undeserved commercial pilot’s papers. What does this mean for safety in our skies?
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The Sunderbans KILLER ASSAULT
Vol 1, Issue 38, Dated - Oct 23, 2004
By VK Shashikumar
Over 10,000 Sunderbans fishermen were evicted from Jambudwip Island by the West Bengal government. Why is the CPM annoying its own people to accommodate Sahara India’s tourism project?
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YOUR DOCTOR COULD BE BLEEDING YOU...
Vol 1, Issue 30, Dated - Aug 28, 2004
By Aman Khanna
Each time a doctor refers you for a scan or a test to a particular diagnostic centre, chances are he is getting a fat commission from there. As diagnostic centres mushroom all over the country, the noble practitioners in white make money at the expense of patients they are meant to heal. Aman Khanna took up a job as a representative in two such centres in the Capital to unravel a flourishing malpractice in which big bucks bind corrupt doctors and greedy businessmen. His report
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GOA CRACKDOWN BEGINS
Vol 1, Issue 29, Dated - Aug 21, 2004
By VK Shashikumar and Mayabhushan Nagvenkar
After the initial stonewalling, Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar has woken up and announced a slew of measures to check paedophilia in the state. The police have launched a crackdown on pederasts. Known child abusers have gone into hiding. Local bodies, including the Church and colleges, are launching awareness campaigns to educate the local population about child abuse by foreigners.
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Sin in Paradise
Vol 1, Issue 28, Dated - Aug 14, 2004
By VK Shashikumar
A five-month undercover investigation conducted by Tehelka has revealed that hundreds of Europeans — British, Germans, Dutch, French, Swiss and Swedish — visit Goa to seek children for sexual gratification. They come to Goa because it is easy, and cheap, to sexually abuse a child here. On the run after crackdowns on cheap child-sex tourism in Thailand and Sri Lanka, the paedophile bus has rolled into Goa. And turned the picture-postcard tourism destination into an arena of perversity and of horrors. Goa has made an alarming transition from being a laid-back resort to a paedophile’s paradise. And the government, despite knowledge of this debased crime, despite alerts from international agencies, chooses to look the other way.
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Dr Gupta’s Laboratory of Madness
Vol 1, Issue 24, Dated - Jul 17, 2004
By Jamshed Khan
Jamshed Khan returns to Agra to dig up fresh evidence on the rot in mental healthcare in our country. He finds more victims and tales of murder, torture, greed and corruption. An in-depth report
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The Price of Insanity
Vol 1, Issue 23, Dated - Jul 10, 2004
By Jamshed Khan
A greedy and corrupt government psychiatrist, whose job it is to heal patients at Agra’s mental asylum, is caught colluding with heartless husbands who want to dump their wives. He charges a mere Rs 5,000 to certify poor, disempowered women mentally ill and testifies to his own falsehoods in court. Jamshed Khan rips the cover off a sordid saga
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Opium Men
Vol 1, Issue 21, Dated - Jun 26, 2004
By Ashish Khetan
The portrait of the politician as a corrupt figurehead is a familiar one to all Indians. But seldom has there been proof against our lawmakers. Seldom have they been caught redhanded. Ashish Khetan rips the opium trail and unearths documentary evidence that indicts several ministers, MPs and MLAs from Uttar Pradesh, who have recommended the release of top drug lords. An in-depth report into the cosy network that binds the neta and the drug runner, one that does not distinguish the Samajwadi Party from the BJP and the BSP
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Damning self disclosures Top leaders lie on oath
Vol 1, Issue 14, Dated - May 08, 2004
By Harinder Baweja and Aman Khanna
Trust our politicians to tweak any law. As Harinder Baweja and Aman Khanna find out, the disclosures of their assets are nothing but lies and an effort to hoodwink the people, whose fundamental right to know was upheld by a landmark Supreme Court judgement.
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EXPOSE: the AK-47 scam
Vol 1, Issue 11, Dated - Apr 17, 2004
By Aman Khanna
The Home Ministry responds to Tehelka on the Kalashnikov scam but opens itself up to further scrutiny
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The Kalashnikov scam
Vol 1, Issue 10, Dated - Apr 10, 2004
By Aman Khanna
The Indian government is threatened with legal action by the Russians for buying AK-47s, intended for the modernisation of its forces, from a Bulgarian firm accused of arming terrorist groups
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Chandraswamy caught on tape CBI moves in
Vol 1, Issue 3, Dated - Feb 21, 2004
By Harinder Baweja and Jamshed Khan
New Delhi
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Preparing for the harvest ...
Vol 1, Issue 1, Dated - Feb 07, 2004
By VK Shashikumar
A new mood of aggressive evangelism has been emanating from America. Well-funded, superbly networked, backed by the highest of the land, seized of its moral supremacy, it has India as one of its key targets, reveals VK Shashikumar in a disturbing exposé
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