VIJAYAWADA: Adding a twist to the controversy over a sleaze video, purportedly of YSRC MP Gorantla Madhav in a lewd interaction with an unidentified woman, the State Crime Investigation Department (CID) on Thursday refuted TDP’s claim that it was genuine.

Addressing the media here, CID chief Additional Director General of Police PV Sunil Kumar said a certificate, claimed to have been issued by a Florida, US-based forensic lab, was fake. A few TDP leaders earlier claimed that the video was original, based on the certificate by Eclipse Forensics. Madhav, representing Hindupur, had asserted that it was “morphed.”

ADGP Kumar said a probe was carried out to find the veracity of the certificate based on a government directive. The officer said the report by the private forensic agency was not authenticated, not valued and not admissible in a court of law.

The CID chief added that he contacted Jim Stafford of Eclipse Forensics over email, and came to know that the final report was manipulated. The firm’s website described Stafford as its owner and forensic engineer. Eclipse also revealed that it had not received any request to analyse and check the authenticity of the video, the officer added.

“Any video can be examined by forensics (lab) only if the original source of the video can be determined. Jim has informed in the mail that the video provided to him was recorded using a mobile device while it was being played on another media device. The video in circulation is not...

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