NEW DELHI: Out of the set of seven video clips related to the controversial February 9 event at Jawaharlal Nehru University four video clippings have emerged out to be “genuine”. These clippings were sent to Central Bureau of Investigation's forensic science laboratory for examinations in Gujarat.
"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, Arvind Deep said.
These videos are the ones which were mostly shot by mobile phones of security guards and other students present on campus the night incident took place, however the video shot by a few news channel which was alleged to be doctored is still awaited.
“The central laboratory here 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” Deep added.
The Delhi government earlier ordered forensic probe of the 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.
The JNU administration which constituted High Level Enquiry Committee(HLEC) to investigate the matter also mentioned in its report that the anti- India slogans were shouted at the procession, as authenticated by Hyderabad-based Truth Labs.
The event which took place at the campus created a huge controversy for over a period of two months, with heavyweights from all fields visited the campus ether in support of the protesting students or in opposition.
JNU Students' Union president Kanhaiya Kumar and two other students, Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya, were arrested after a case under the charges of sedition. They are presently out on bail. After the HLEC banned Anirban from entry on campus for a period of five years and rusticated Khalid for one semester and Kanhiya was fined Rs 10,000 students went on to sit on a 16 day protest hunger strike. The strike only ended after the Delhi High court intervened and put a stay on the orders of the HLEC.
“As the investigative agencies have found that the videos were not tampered with and are genuine, I request the Home Ministry to take action all the people who have been identified as taking part in the anti-national activities. This includes some professors also who indulge in such activities” said JNUSU Join-Secretary Saurabh Sharma.