Police clippings manipulated: expert

By Our Special Correspondent

CHENNAI, JULY 5. The video clippings on the arrest of the former Chief Minister, Mr. M. Karunanidhi, released by the Tamil Nadu police are a ``manipulated version'', a leading forensic scientist, Prof. P. Chandra Sekharan, said today.

The clippings were crude manipulations, ``cruder than the fake photograph'' exhibited to the press, during the previous AIADMK rule, showing Dr. Subramanian Swamy and TADA prisoner Ravi together, with a view to imprisoning the Janata Party president under the TADA, Prof. Sekharan said.

He said the repeated animation of the Union Minister, Mr. Murasoli Maran's hand punching the DIG, CB-CID, Mr. A. P. Mohamed Ali in the face ``did not exhibit the natural arthrological movements of a human hand, but did clearly demonstrate the rigid movement of the animated arm''.

The clippings said to have emanated from the police in more than one version were manipulations by video-editing and computer animation, the scientist said.

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