The Delhi Police on Tuesday claimed that the four video clippings related to the controversial February 9 event at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) that were sent for forensic test in Gandhinagar have emerged as “genuine”. However, report is awaited on another set of video clips, including the one broadcast by a few news channels and alleged to be doctored. The clips were sent to the CBI’s Central Forensic Science laboratory (CFSl).
“We have received a report on four video clips from the Gandhinagar laboratory and they have been mentioned as genuine. Report on the other clips, being examined at the CFSl, is awaited,” Special Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Arvind Deep said.
These video clips, apart from the one recorded by the camera of a Hindi news channel, were mostly shot by mobile phones of security guards and other students who were present on the campus during the event in which “anti-India” slogans were allegedly raised.
The central laboratory is also examining the concerned news channel’s camera, storage card and wire among other equipment. Their report is expected to arrive in a week, added Deep.
An official privy to the probe said several persons, who allegedly raised anti-India slogans during the event, have been identified on the basis of the videos reported to be genuine.
Earlier, a Delhi Government-ordered forensic probe into a set of video clippings of the controversial JNU event had found two of them to be “manipulated”, where voices of persons not present in the clips were added.
Incidentally, Truth labs in Hyderabad had conducted forensic test of seven video clips of the event on the orders of the Delhi Government and found that three of them were ‘doctored’.
On February 9, an event was organised on the JNU campus to protest against the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru. During the event, anti-India slogans were allegedly raised, which led to the registration of a police case under charges of sedition and criminal conspiracy.
later, JNU students’ union president Kanhaiya Kumar and two other students, Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya, were arrested in connection with the case. They are out on bail.