NEW DELHI: On a day when the AAP government has decided to file criminal cases against three TV news channels on the basis of a magisterial probe which concluded they aired allegedly doctored videos of a controversial event at the JNU on February 9 involving its students union president, the Delhi Police arrested Adarsh Sharma, who claimed to be the president of ‘Purvanchal Sena’, in connection with the case registered over sticking posters in the city announcing a reward of Rs 11 lakh for anyone for shooting JNUSU chief Kanhaiya Kumar dead. Mr Sharma was questioned at a police station in connection with the posters stuck on a wall near the Press Club of India and bus stops and metro stations in New Delhi district.
Earlier, a source in the AAP government said that administration’s legal team has been ordered to initiate action against the three channels whose names were not mentioned in the report by the New Delhi District Magistrate Sanjay Kumar. He said that a lower court will be approached under section 200 of CrPC under which a magistrate takes cognisance of an offence on receiving a complaint.
CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury and JD(U) leader K.C. Tyagi met Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and demanded action against the TV channels which allegedly ran “doctored” videos on the JNU row. The magisterial probe, ordered by the Delhi government, had found that out of seven videos sent to a Hydrabad-based forensic lab, three had been edited. Of the three edited videos, two had been reportedly doctored, including one clipping of a news channel. As per report of the Hyderabad-based lab, two videos were “manipulated” where voices of persons not present in the clippings were added.
