NEW DELHI, July 23: Yet another prosecution witness in the JMM MPs bribery case turned hostile today. Deposing before a special court here Virendra Singh, a Hissar-based lawyer refused to recognise a video cassette that he presented to CBI on a public speech of former Haryana chief minister Bhajan Lal.Singh had allegedly got Lal's public meeting recorded which was held after voting on the no-confidence motion against P V Narasimha Rao government on July 28, 1993.In his testimony, he told special judge Ajit Bharihoke that the cassette shown to him by the prosecution today was "not the same" which he had handed over to the CBI.CBI witnesses, Devender Mukhiya, a self-proclaimed journalist and Dilawar Singh, the then private secretary to former Union minister Ajit Singh, had earlier turned hostile during recording of their evidence in the court."The cassette I had given to CBI inspector Harikesh had a green sticker pasted on it and it's spool was fully loaded with the audio-video tape," Virendra Singhtold the court in reply to a question by prosecutor A K Dutt.
