His Divine Holiness Paramahamsa Nithyananda’s non-profit organization in USA, Life Bliss Foundation has done a Forensic Analysis on the morphed video through Forensic Experts, which revealed that the video has been edited and has many deleted files
What did they find (or not find) in the camera recordings, that made them take the decision to morph the recorded video?
- It is highly suspect that the forensic reports of the police clearly show that the video showing Paramahamsa Nithyananda and actress Ranjitha have a number of deleted files and the total number of files itself mismatching. The forensic report of the police says that the memory chip 1 Exhibit-1A had 24 deleted video files and the memory chip 2 Exhibit-1B had 34 deleted video files.
- Second important discrepancy staring right in the face is the fact that the report says the DVD marked Exhibit-2 has all the files that are there in the memory cards marked Exhibit-1A and Exhibit-1B. But Exhibit-2 has only 116 video clips. However, Exhibit-1A has 70 video clips and Exhibit-1B has 213 video clips, and there were 24+34 = 58 deleted video files. So the total clips in DVD Exhibit-2 should have been 70+213 +24+34 = 341.
Extract of the forensic analysis report of the police below:
Noted FBI forensic expert Jow Notowitz analyses in depth and reveals the gross technical flaws raising fundamental serious doubts about the very genesis of the morphed video.
VIDEO TRANSCRIPT:
Question: Swamiji you made a very big statement saying that the CD which was released was morphed but it was tested from the very reputed agency FSL in Hyderabad in Hyderabad, they say that CD is genuine
Swamiji: Can I can I answer two things, first chain of custody the no FSL lan can speak the authenticity of any video without having the clear understanding about the chain of custody when it was shot where it was kept see
You Can answer,yes
I would like to say a few things about the video. First of all many of you might be relying upon a CFSL report and we saying that if CFSL laboratory is confirming that this is authentic, this means authentic but unfortunately the CFSL laboratory should never have even touched this video because the video has a date on it.
That date happens to be 25th of December 2009 and the CFSL received the video some time in May and the Chennai police receive the video on 4th of March 2010. Between 25th December 2009 and 4th March 2010,nobody knows the whereabouts of this video and for any video to be called evidence there is something known as a chain of custody. A laboratory should be in the position to pinpoint where this video was between 25th of December 2009 and the 4th of March 2010. The laboratory simply has no such information because nobody in the world knows where this video was doing what in that period.
CFSL should have never touched this but having actually touched the video having actually given a certain report many things actually come into doubt. First and foremost what is the basis for CFSL to say that this is genuine because this is digital video you are dealing with digital video to speak of .Number one this is not analogue, number two-the authenticity of a distilled video is always open to doubt and question. It is only approximate and nobody can be certain, not even CFSL is certain and it would be inappropriate for anybody outside of CFSL to say that yes this is true. And also lawyers and forensic scientist in the United States are now going through this video they don’t have the entire video with them, they have actually the clippings of the video and they are startled actually to find out that in India that thing like this is believed by the masses and they are saying that they will give an affidavit very shortly to say that video is only morphed.They are saying that the quantum of light actually generated by the video is the exact quantum that is necessary to morph the video and to create a reasonable doubt to the naked eye.So there are several inconsistencies that they have pointed out and unfortunately I cannot give you the exact inconsistency. But I will give you a reference,there is a timestamp in the video that time stamp says 8 o’clock in the morning but the video has an alarm clock,alarm clock says 11 o’clock in the morning.Now when video timestamp becomes 8 o’clock, if I go from 8 o’clock to 8:15 what do you think the alarm clock in the video should be displaying? 11:15 but unfortunately it does not display 11:15, it displays 3:30. Number 2, there is a network that is being shown, there is a television that is playing inside the video,there is a particular network actually that is playing on the television and the forensic scientist in the United States are now saying that they have ascertained that, that particular network never telecast that particular program on that day. But what they are all baffled with is that is the choice of the day 25th of December 2009 maybe we all miss the significance of that day because this is an arbitrary date, for a person who would morph actually any one of the 365 days in the year would be valid why on earth that they choose 25th of December 2009 or for that matter 25th of December. The lawyers, forensic scientists in the US are actually baffled they just don’t understand, why 25th of December- all the dates in the world. Because they believe 25th of December is a sacred day for them. That’s the birthday of Lord Jesus the Christ and there are furthermore inconsistencies. The video specifically, the charge sheet lists out the maker and manufacturer of the video. And the scientists in the United States they have been able to find out the speed at which the video shoots,it is something like 30 frames per second. And they say for a speed like this there is a table fan that is captured inside the video and they basically have calculated the speed of the blade within the table fan and they are saying when the video shoots at 30 frames per second and when a still is taken out of that video, the Blade should appear in a certain way but the blade is appearing in the exact,opposite way and these are the things that will be given later in the form of an affidavit for all those who would want to believe that the video is genuine. The video is not genuine and the video represents an extraordinary digital manipulation. Because it is, if we want to believe yes they took 2 months, one might want to wonder, what was the video doing in those two months, In those 2 months and there are 7-8 other inconsistencies unfortunately I am not been authorised to divulge those inconsistencies at this point of time.But I just wish to tell you this, Hollywood would be delighted because it is believed that the people in the US are saying the video represents finest Hollywood work and all Hollywood labs would be delighted once basically they realise that people believe this is true, this is real that is all. Thankyou.
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