KOCHI: The officials of the Centre for Development of Imaging Technology (C-DIT), Thiruvananthapuram, do not have the expertise and knowledge to check video forensics, according to a report submitted by the CBI team probing the Sr Abhaya case.
In the report submitted to the Chief Judicial Magistrate Court, Ernakulam, on Thursday, the CBI said that C-DIT officials had no knowledge of narco analysis test and had not analysed narco analysis tapes before.
The C-DIT officials, who analysed the video tapes of narco analysis test conducted on the three accused in the Sr Abhaya case, had reported that the contents of the tape were tampered with. The narco test was conducted at the Forensic Science Lab, Bangalore.
Following this, the court had directed the CBI to interrogate C-DIT officials and submit a report.
However, the CBI said in the report that the C-DIT officials examined the three video cassettes of the narco test from a video professional’s perspective, and not forensically. “C-DIT is not an accredited forensic laboratory or video forensic laboratory approved by the Central or State Government or any other national or international bodies to opine on video forensics. The C-DIT does not have any video forensic laboratory or expertise. The officials of C-DIT have not undergone any training or analysed or opined forensically on a narco test tape or video tape ever before. Therefore, the official who analysed the video tape of narco test could not be designated an ‘expert’ in video forensic,” the CBI said in its report.
It was also stated in the report that no work-book, register or any other documents were available with the C-DIT to substantiate the conclusions on the test of narco test tapes.
“The C-DIT officials have clearly stated that there was no morphing or voice manipulation in the three video tapes of narco tests,’’ the report said.