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

NEW DELHI: 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).

                                                                                                               
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