JNU row: Videos doctored, says Hyderabad-based Truth Labs
An audio was recorded separately and then inserted and synced to the video footage of JNU, Truth Labs officials said.
Hyderabad: Forensic tests have revealed that the two video clips containing “anti-national sloganeering” by JNU students have been doctored and manipulated. Hyderabad-based Truth Labs, which was asked to verify the videos by the Delhi government as part of a magisterial inquiry, found serious tampering and inserting of “very special hate words” into the video clips.
An audio was recorded separately and then inserted and synced to the video footage of JNU, Truth Labs officials said. In a report submitted to the Delhi government, Truth Labs said, “Hate words were recorded from some other place and inserted using video editing software.”
No ‘Pak Zindabad’ in video
The test also showed that the slogan “Pakistan Zindabad” was not in any of the videos.Confirming the news to this newspaper, Truth Labs chairman K.P.C. Gandhi said that the two controversial videos were clearly manipulated. “Those recorded slogans (anti-India) were from some other places. They were imposed on the video clip,” he said. “We have submitted the report to the Delhi government. Detailed examination can provide answers to whose voices those were,” he added. Sources from Truth Labs further said that while one of the videos was massively edited and had several cuts, in the other video, the audio was imposed on the video.
In the 25-page report, Truth Labs highlighted each portion of the doctored videos where specific words were inserted. Two major National TV channels — one English and the other Hindi — had earlier repeatedly aired the same doctored videos. Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya were arrested on sedition charges.