Row over video: Delhi Assermbly speaker to direct for a CBI probe, says no tampering in audio as per FSL report

Key Highlights

• Speaker stated that the FSL report is categorical in its findings, and based on frame-by-frame analysis using a video analysis system, the laboratory has found no indication of alteration, manipulation, or tampering in either the audio or the video.
• Gupta recalled that the matter relating to the statement of a video was taken up in the Assembly, as demanded by the opposition.
• He said that the house unanimously decided to send the audio and video recordings of the proceedings for forensic examination, and the material was sent to the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL), where a detailed scientific examination was conducted.
• The speaker expressed serious concern over the subsequent developments, where despite a unanimous decision of the legislature to conduct a forensic examination, a parallel exercise was initiated in Punjab.
• He noted that, in a dramatic sequence of events, the Punjab Government had conducted its own forensic examination, obtained a report, and registered FIR, even while the Delhi Assembly-authorised forensic process was underway.