FSL finds BSY, Ananth Kumar voice samples genuine

The issue relates to alleged payments made to party high command

October 09, 2017 07:30 am | Updated December 03, 2021 10:45 am IST - Bengaluru

BJP’s state president B.S. Yeddyurappa

BJP’s state president B.S. Yeddyurappa

The voice samples in the DVD containing a conversation between Bharatiya Janata Party State unit president B.S. Yeddyurappa and Union Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Ananth Kumar over allegations of payments to party high command have been found to be genuine by the Forensic Sciences Lab (FSL).

The FSL is learnt to have found that the voices in the eight-minute DVD are genuine and there are no abnormalities such as additions or deletions in the DVD. The report was submitted to the Central Crime Branch for further action. Sources said that the CCB officials had sought legal opinion on the report to take further action.

The Congress had released a DVD about three months ago on the purported conversation between Mr. Yeddyurappa and Mr. Ananth Kumar in which they refer to their own allegations of a ₹1,000 crore bribe paid by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to his party high command as well as his statement that they (BJP) too had made payments to their high command when the BJP was in power in Karnataka.

The BJP leaders had then alleged that the contents of the DVD had been edited to give an impression that they had made payments to their high command. Meanwhile, the DVD had been referred to the FSL for voice analysis after a case in this regard had been filed with the Cyber crime police.

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