HC Announces Friday as the Date for Narada Forensic Test

Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court said that it will pass an order next Friday in order to collect the tapes and other devices used to make the Narada sting video showing Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders and MPs taking money. The HC has also asserted on Wednesday that all the tools and devices used will go through a forensic test ‘to ascertain the genuineness of the videos,’ should be presented to the court.

The division bench of Chief Justice Manjula Chellur and Justice A Banerjee said that they will pass an order and observe all the recordings, date and time and when the tapes were first derived, the pen drive and a mobile phone that was allegedly used to record the monetary transactions  been made to operate the Narada sting, said reports.

Following the lawyers who appeared in the court in support of the TMC leaders claiming ‘why the tapes were uploaded during elections and whether material from an iPhone could be admitted as evidence should be considered before the footage was sent to the laboratory’ was denied by the justice bench.

Chief Justice Chellur said: “This court will send the documents to verify their authenticity first. Then other matters will be decided. Only after receiving the report will this court decide about the maintainability of the case. It will also decide whether the issue will be sent to a criminal court or any agency for investigation....Common people should know whether the incident was authentic or not.” She also added that the court will pass an order on Friday for forensic test.

Asked about the time the sting videos were released, Narada News chief editor Mathew Samuel presented all the details of the tapes including people associated with the video and the how much time it took to shoot the video.