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Delhi Assembly Speaker Vijender Gupta connected Saturday said a forensic introspection has recovered that a video of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) person Atishi allegedly making derogatory remarks against Sikh gurus successful the House was not doctored and a CBI probe volition beryllium ordered into the matter.
Addressing a property conference, Mr. Gupta said helium would besides question a CBI enquiry into the ongoing probe into the video by the Punjab government.
He said a forensic probe ordered by him into the archetypal footage from the Assembly showed that the video “was not tampered with”. The Speaker urged Ms. Atishi to apologise to the House for her alleged remarks.
Chief Minister Rekha Gupta said the forensic study confirmed that the video from January 6, erstwhile Ms. Atishi allegedly made a “shameful, undignified” remark, was “100% correct” and “untampered”.
She accused the Opposition enactment of “misusing” the Punjab government, police, and forensic laboratory to “cover up the truth”.
Ms. Atishi’s comments successful the House had triggered a governmental storm, with the BJP alleging that she made derogatory remarks astir Guru Tegh Bahadur.
Earlier this week, a Jalandhar tribunal had ordered the alleged doctored video to beryllium taken down from societal media platforms.
Labour Minister Kapil Mishra, who shared the video online, said the forensic study established the “sin” committed by Ms. Atishi and accused AAP main Arvind Kejriwal of committing a “bigger sin” by “misusing Punjab Police to support her”.
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann said the forensic study shows that Ms. Atishi “did not accidental thing similar that and helium [Mr. Mishra] enactment subtitles connected the video and insulted the gurus”. “The tribunal has ordered that the video beryllium removed from societal media. But if the BJP believes that the CBI is supra it, past it should bid a CBI probe arsenic well,” helium said.
‘Fanning discord’
AAP demanded that Mr. Mishra beryllium sentenced to 3 years successful jailhouse for “disrespecting” the Sikh gurus by posting a “fake” video.
Delhi AAP president Saurabh Bharadwaj rejected the forensic study from Delhi, saying it did not code the cardinal issue. “She [Atishi] did not utter the connection ‘gurus’, but the study does not notation it. The BJP tried to instrumentality spiritual discord by utilizing the video,” helium said.
‘Serious consequences’
The Speaker said connected Saturday that the Jalandhar court’s bid was lone interim, adding that it lacked jurisdiction to enforce “sweeping restrictions” crossed integer platforms.
Urging Ms. Atishi to travel guardant and conscionable him, Mr. Gupta said, “If not, determination volition beryllium superior consequences… I’m giving a accidental to her to apologise... I’m informing the Punjab Chief Minister not to interfere successful the proceedings of the House.”
Meanwhile, Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal wrote to Mr. Gupta seeking Ms. Atishi’s disqualification arsenic MLA and the registration of an FIR, saying her remarks had “deeply wounded the spiritual sentiments of the Sikh community”.
(With inputs from PTI)
