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‘Shanti Bhushan CD is doctored’
Forensic examination of the controversial CD purportedly containing conversation of Team Anna member Shanti Bhushan, SP chief Mulayam Singh and Rajya Sabha MP Amar Singh by a Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) Chandigarh shows that it was “doctored”, contradicting finding of CFSL- Delhi and statements of Delhi Police.
The CFSL, Chandigarh has, in an RTI reply, said that the recording in CD is “not original” and “post production edited version”.
“Same different words were found inserted at numerous places in the recording present in the CDby electronic editing (non-linear editing) to show the contextual continuity in the conversation…..On the basis of above observations, I came to the conclusion that recording present in the Compact Disc (CD) is not original and it is a post production edited version,” said Dr.SK Jain, Deputy Director (Ballistics) of the CFSL Chandigarh
The controversial CD came as major embarrassment for noted lawyers Shanti Bhushan and son Prashant Bhushan in April second week when Anna Hazare’s protests started at Jantar Mantar.
Puncturing the authenticity of the CD and providing the results of two private labs, Bhushans had complained to Delhi police, alleging foul play from the government side to defame the members of Team Anna.
After Bhushans complaint, Home Minister P Chidambaram said that the Delhi Police have been directed to sent to two government labs — CFSL Delhi and Chandigarh — to check the authenticity of the conversations in the CD, circulated in media.
Just three days after the complaint, Delhi Police told media that according to the CFSL Delhi results, the CD was genuine. But the police t kept silence on the outcome of the CFSL Chandigarh findings . Delhi CFSL is having primitive sound technology system called Sonography, which can’t detect the intricacies of computer aided recording. Only CFSL Labs in Chandigarh and Hyderabad are having the advanced technology to verify the computer based recordings.
After hushing up the CFSL Chandigarh findings, the Delhi Police sent the controversial CD to CERT-In, a department under the ministry of communications and information technology, headed by Kapil Sibal. The CERT, which is only having expertise in cyber operations, also parroted the Delhi Police version.
When asked about the development, son of Shanti Bhushan, Prashant said,”The Delhi Police did not even forward the other CD, the Mulayam Singh Amar Singh CD, to the Chandigarh CFSL Lab which would have even more graphically showed that all of Mulayam Singh’s voice has been copied and pasted from the tapes filed before Supreme Court in the CD sent for examination.”
He was referring to the tapes he filed in the Supreme Court in 2006 to demand that Amar Singh’s intercepted phone conversations be made public. “Moreover, the dishonesty of the Delhi Police is evident from the fact that they withheld the Mulayam Singh Amar Singh CD from all the labs, procured a dishonest report from the CFSL, Delhi and made it public and refused to disclose the report Chandigarh CFS,” Bhushan alleged.
