The Delhi police on Friday told a local court that it did not find it necessary to record the statements of SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and RS MP Amar Singh to verify the authenticity of the controversial CD purportedly having the voice of lawyer Shanti Bhushan. The police submitted a seven-page response after the court had on December 14 pulled it up for its failure to record statements of the two.
Stressing that there is no doctoring or fabrication of the CD in case, the police said it did not deem it fit to record the two leaders’ statement as the fact that Mr Yadav talked to Mr Bhushan came out during Mr Singh’s examination by it.
Giving a para-wise reply to the protest petition of Mr Bhushan, the special cell of the Delhi police said in the court of chief metropolitan magistrate Vinod Yadav, “The statements of Mulayam Singh Yadav and Amar Singh were not recorded under Section 161 CrPC as it was not considered necessary as the scope of investigation was only to ascertain if the CD in question was fabricated.”
The submissions were made by the police in its reply to Mr Bhushan’s petition challenging the police report’s seeking cancellation of his complaint that the CD containing his alleged conversations with Mulayam Singh Yadav and Amar Singh was fabricated.
The police said, “The factum of having a conversation with Mulayam Singh Yadav has been corroborated during examination of Amar Singh who stated that he made a telephonic call to Yadav and gave the receiver to Shanti Bhushan who started talking to him and at that point of time, he (Amar Singh) left the room.”
This part of the statement at least establishes the circumstances of the conversation having taken place between the complainant and Mulayam Yadav.”
The expert opinion is indicative of the fact that these CDs are neither doctored nor fabricated,” the police said.