A raw video footage which was captured at the controversial February 9 event of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), which was the evidence based on which the FIR was registered against the university’s students union president Kanhaiya Kumar and two others has been found as authentic at CBI forensic labs, the police has confirmed.

The raw footage obtained from a Hindi news channel was sent to the lab in New Delhi for examination along with camera, memory card, a CD containing the clip, wires and other equipments, earlier.  

A police source said, “The CBI lab sent a report to Delhi Police’s special cell on June 8 saying the raw footage was authentic”. Arvind Deep, Special Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) confirmed the receipt of reports but did not give the further details.

Earlier, in May police had sent four videos of the event to Gnadhinagar-based Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) and in reports it said the videos are genuine. However, when the videos rechecked by the Hyderabad based Truth Labs it was found in the report that the two videos were manipulated and other was genuine.

Police has confirmed that the case was registered under the raw video footage where Umar Khalid has been seeing raising Anti-India slogans, which was obtained in a CD and not the videos which were aired on TV channels.

By Prajakt K.