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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Bhushan cites experts, asserts CD was spliced to tar graft war by Abantika Ghosh

Bhushan cites experts, asserts CD was spliced to tar graft war by Abantika Ghosh

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published Published on Apr 17, 2011   modified Modified on Apr 17, 2011
Two renowned forensic experts have established that the Shanti Bhushan tape where he purportedly asks for money to fix a case was fabricated, vindicating Prashant Bhushan and his colleagues in the India Against Corruption campaign who had maintained that the CD was spliced.

Armed with reports from US-based acoustic phonetics expert George Papcun and S R Singh, former director of Central Forensic Science Laboratory who is now with Hyderabad-based Truth Labs, lawyer Prasant Bhushan told a crowded press conference that the findings had established that there was an attempt to malign the reputation of the Bhushans as well as the civil society activists fighting against corruption.

He also said there was a conspiracy to derail verdicts in two important cases -- on the Amar Singh tapes and on the legality of 2G spectrum licences -- in the Supreme Court in which hearing has been concluded and judgment reserved.

The two experts concluded that the CD was tampered with. Papcun said his analysis showed discontinuities in the conversations which showed that the "recording is not an authentic and valid representation of an original conversation" and tampering in at least five critical places in Shanti Bhushan's speech. He also found a "probable gap" in recording.

S R Singh said the conversations between Shanti Bhushan, Mulayam Singh Yadav and Amar Singh were fabricated. He said his anlaysis indicated that a "substantial part of the recordings are electronically copied to build up and fabricate the questioned recording".

The findings of Papcun and Singh have proven wrong the assessment of forensic experts TOI had cited on Sunday that the CD did not appear to have been doctored.

Citing Singh of Truth Labs, Prashant Bhushan said at least three parts of Mulayam's speech in the forged CD had been lifted from tapes he had filed in the Supreme Court in 2006 to demand that Amar Singh's intercepted phone conversations be made public. "In fact, all the three known instances of fabrication have been lifted from a single three-minute conversation Mr Amar Singh had with Mr Mulayam Singh," he said, adding that he would move the Supreme Court in the next few days and seek remedy under Section 469 of the IPC (attempt to harm reputation through forgery).

Bhushan elaborated on his charge that the forged CD was an attempt to subvert the judicial proceedings in the two important cases by alleging complicity of corporates and politicians like Amar Singh. Referring to Amar Singh's purported statement in the CD that Bhushan could "manage" a Supreme Court judge, he said, "It seems to be no coincidence that the judge Amar Singh appears to name in that context is heading the Bench which has heard and reserved judgments in the Amar Singh tapes case as well as the case challenging the legality of 2G licences, in both of which I was a lawyer."

He further said, "This raises the serious concern whether the object of the fabricated CD was, among other things, to subvert the judicial process in these two sensitive cases."

In the CD established to have been forged, Shanti Bhushan tells Mulayam in a conversation arranged by Amar Singh that Prashant Bhusant could "manage" the judge in question for Rs 4 crore.

"We have to get to the root of this conspiracy to find out who all are involved," Bhushan said as he expressed confidence that the Supreme Court would take up his plea for initiating contempt of court proceedings against the persons concerned.

He refrained from accusing the government of being complicit in the conspiracy but said the process of drafting the Lokpal Bill could suffer if members of the regime were found to be involved. He threatened to file a criminal defamation suit against Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh for alleging that his family had engaged in stamp duty evasion while buying an Allahabad property.

The findings of forensic experts have come as a shot in the arm to Bhushans' comrades in the Lokpal Bill panel. Anna Hazare cited the reported findings of the laboratories to express satisfaction over the outcome. Arvind Kejriwal, another leading light of the campaign against corruption, was present at the press conference.

The Times of India, 18 April, 2011, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Bhushan-cites-experts-asserts-CD-was-spliced-to-tar-graft-war/articleshow/8007849.cms


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