Police showed same photos tweeted by ABVP officials

Delhi | Sunday | 12th January, 2020

Summary:

The photos that police released on Friday to identify students belonging to left organisations were indistinguishable from photos posted by ABVP's National Organising Secretary, Ashish Chauhan and one photo posted by Anima Sonkar, ABVP's Delhi Joint Secretary, including the marking and text in them. In fact, the photos of Pankaj Mishra, Chunchun Kumar and Vaskar V Mech released by Delhi Police were all posted by Chauhan on his Twitter account in the days before the police presser. On the other hand, Sonkar had tweeted a photo of JNUSU President Aishe Ghosh, alleging that she had led the attacks and an identical photo was released by police to identify her as a suspect. The two photos are virtually impossible to differentiate with the same text box containing the same text in the same font and colour. As for Dolan Samanta, the AISA activist's identification was also seemingly based on a video tweeted by Chauhan earlier, from where the picture seems to be a still image..