Who is to define public interest?
It is up to the media to define it. I think self-regulation is the best option. We have to evolve a code but it shouldn’t be a written code because that can be dangerous. In India, we don’t have a case law that spells out what is public interest. But if this case goes to court, then public interest will become the defining factor. Aren’t you guilty of entrapment? You have pretended to be someone you’re not and enticed MPs to take money. There is a case law in the US defining entrapment. In India, we don’t have a similar case law. If the law allows me to walk the grey area, then I will walk it. Look, we didn’t go fishing in this case. The middlemen fixed the first meeting for us. After that, the MPs kept calling us. They knew that we were offering money to them to ask questions in Parliament. But they didn’t know your identity. They didn’t know you were a journalist. There will obviously be an element of deception. You can’t do a story without it. Would the MP have allowed me in if I ha
