“Police on Saturday asked us for our reporter’s camera and memory card. “You are requested to provide the camera of reporter Pawan Nara by which he had recorded the said incident along with its original chip containing the recording of this incident for the purpose of investigations,” it adds.Īsked about the request for the original footage, Police Commissioner B S Bassi said, “Whatever our investigation officer thinks is required for the investigation into the case, he is doing.”Įditor, Zee News, Sudhir Chaudhary confirmed police had approached them for the camera and the memory card containing the “original chip”. Watch video: ABVP Students Raise Slogans At Delhi University 110/16 dated 10.2.16 u/s 124A/4/120B IPC has been registered at police station Vasant Kunj North in this regard,” states the police letter. This incident was covered by your reporter Pawan Nara with his camera. “It is to inform your channel had telecast the incident regarding allegedly raising of anti national slogans/ activities by students of JNU Campus on 9.2.16. Police sources said the original camera and memory card could be sent for forensic tests.
The letter addressed to the Editor-in-Chief of Zee News was titled: “Request to produce the camera along with its original chip belonging to reporter Pawan Nara who had recorded the incident dated of JNU campus”. On Saturday afternoon, Vasant Kunj North Station House Officer Prabhu Dayal sent a letter to the Zee News office. The AAP said the clips showed “the real culprits behind the unrest in JNU”. Later, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had complained to the Delhi Police about the same footage, submitting two video clips purportedly showing members of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) shouting ‘Pakistan Zindabad’. It was after this that Kanhaiya was arrested on charges of sedition and criminal conspiracy.