Editing Auto Shankar (section)

==Responses==
K. Vijay Kumar, the Tamil Nadu Additional Director-General of Police, claimed that cinema was solely responsible for making  Shankar a criminal.<ref name="Vijay">[https://web.archive.org/web/20071001064918/http://www.hindu.com/2007/03/05/stories/2007030503780300.htm The Hindu : Media, police should not harm society's interests]</ref> He mentioned this during a seminar on "Crime and Media" in [[Kerala]].

The trial has become widely known across the nation since the Supreme Court invoked the American [[free speech]] doctrine and the case became oft-quoted in relation to journalistic [[investigative journalism|exposés]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20040117071707/http://www.hindu.com/2003/12/12/stories/2003121201851200.htm The Hindu : Whistles, stings and slapps]</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20040904033130/http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/2001/09/07/stories/05072523.htm The Hindu : Tehelka: what next?]</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20041129150303/http://www.hindu.com/2004/10/15/stories/2004101500821000.htm The Hindu : The Tehelka Commission]</ref>