Commission of inquiry

13 Feb 2016

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State government, Delhi

On 13 February Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said the Delhi government was directing the District Magistrate to conduct an enquiry, citing competing claims about who shouted the slogans. The inquiry by New Delhi District Magistrate Sanjay Kumar reported on 2 March; PTI reported that it found nothing adverse against Kumar and said Umar Khalid's role needed further investigation. Videos of the event are contested. PTI reported that the inquiry found three of seven videos sent to Truth Labs, Hyderabad, doctored; The Hindu, citing unnamed sources, reported two. The Delhi government later filed a complaint against three news channels over the videos. Delhi Police said the FIR rested on the channel's unedited footage, not the aired clips, and a police source said in June 2016 that the Central Forensic Science Laboratory had found that footage authentic. In the High Court, Kumar's counsel said the footage did not show him raising anti-national slogans, and the order records that the State did not dispute this at that stage. [2][3][4][5][7][6][1]

• 3 videos of the event found doctored, of seven sent to Truth Labs, Hyderabad, said Magisterial inquiry report (as reported by PTI) [5]
• 2 videos of the event found manipulated, of seven sent to Truth Labs, Hyderabad, said Unnamed sources (as reported by The Hindu) [4]

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