The police, however, maintained that the FIR was registered on the basis of raw video footage obtained from a news channel on a CD, and not on the clippings aired on TV channels.
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According to PTI report, the police further said that the raw footage of the event, obtained from a Hindi news channel, was sent to the CBI forensic lab in Delhi for examination along with camera, memory card, a CD containing the clip, wires and other equipment.
The case has since been handed over to the Delhi Police’s elite anti-terrorism Special Cell unit.
The footage of the controversial video of a JNU event that emerged on February 9, created a lot of uproar in the country. He also questioned how the owner of that channel Subhash Chandra became a BJP Rajya Sabha MP a day after the purported CBI report that said the videos were not doctored. “Our biases made us hear Bhartiya Court Zindabad as Pakistan Zindabad”, stated his letter. It is intriguing that an unedited disc of the February 9 protests was lying with the Zee News for some time with its allegedly damning footage not used for months. “We have handed over all the raw footage to the Delhi Police”, he had said.
Earlier, the police had sent four videos recorded by a mobile phone to a Gandhinagar-based CFSL for authentication. These videos were reportedly recorded by security guards and students on their mobile phones.
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However, the government later launched a probe and sent a set of seven video clippings to a Hyderabad-based Truth Labs, where it was found that two of the clips were indeed manipulated.
