Filmmaker Aisha Sultana, towards whom a sedition case has been registered, has stated that her cell phone and her brother’s laptop computer had been seized by the Kavaratti police and had been stored someplace for almost a month with out producing them earlier than courts. They had been later despatched to a forensic lab in Gujarat through a particular messenger “to do one thing towards” her.
In a reply affidavit filed within the Kerala Excessive Courtroom, she stated usually all forensic evaluation of objects seized from Lakshadweep was performed on the labs in Hyderabad, Chennai or Kerala. Nonetheless, in her case, the prosecution intentionally circumvented the chain of custody of each digital units seized, which had “supplied a chance for them to put in any materials in line with their whims and fancies which is prejudicial to the curiosity of the petitioner/accused.”
The reply affidavit was filed in response to an affidavit filed by the Lakshadweep administration in her case looking for to quash the sedition case.
The filmmaker additionally identified that the imputation made by the petitioner within the channel debate was towards the usual working process (SOP) leisure by the brand new Administrator, who was a former Dwelling Minister in Gujarat. The petitioner apprehended that her cell phone and her brother’s laptop computer had been seized with a view to “implanting false and harmful supplies in them.”
Predated information
It was potential to put in predated media information in an digital machine like a smartphone, with the assistance of expert individuals. There have been so many data expertise specialists working below the police or they might use the service of personal hackers to “create false costs” towards her. The evaluation report based mostly on a custody-compromised materials object couldn’t be thought-about at any stage of the prosecution.
The investigation group’s makes an attempt had been to forged a shadow of doubt on her. The petitioner shouldn’t be indulging in any type of anti-social, anti-national or every other prison or civil actions, she stated.