The Chief Minister claimed that he had a clear record and nothing to fear from a sting operation.

Facing allegations of targeting Tehelka's Tarun Tejpal, Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar said he was certain the publication was planning to target him with a sting operation after the police began investigating allegations against the magazine's editor-in-chief.

"I am sure they must have tried a sting operation on me also in the past 5-6 days.... I am positive about it," he said during an interview with IBN7.

However, Parrikar said he wasn't worried about the sting operation since he had a clear conscience and record.

"If there is a skeleton in your cupboard you will be worried about it... If there is no skeleton in your cupboard... there is no need for any worry," Parrikar said.

This isn't the first time that the Chief Minister has made the allegation and on 27 November had alleged that Tejpal must have been attempting a sting operation in the state.

"He is a known stinger. Maybe he was trying a sting operation which failed, which is why he is saying this," Parrikar told a press conference at the state secretariat here.

The Chief Minister had also dared Tejpal to carry out a sting operation in Goa.

"Let him do a sting here... if he wants to trap something," he said.

Tejpal in his anticipatory bail application before the Delhi High Court has said the Bharatiya Janata Party was pressurising police to nail him as part of a vendetta.