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Three CDs,one after the other,were played in the court room as everyone stared at the laptop on the judges table. For a while the court of Additional Sessions Judge R K Gauba in Tis Hazari converted into a small screening hall on Thursday. Sound of gunshots,screams,a conference,a training camp and a funeral some visuals were blurred,others in technicolour. The accused,Kobad Ghandy,from whom the police claimed to have recovered the CDs,stood in silence watching the proceedings,a cervical collar around his neck.
In one CD,he is seen attending a CPI(Maoist) conference in Nepal and being received and hailed by people there, Additional Public Prosecutor Rajeev Mohan explained to the judge. The second shows the details of a Maoists training camp at an unknown place and the plan to raid and attack a security forces camp. It then shows the attack on a camp in Magadh,Bihar, he added.
A person accompanying Ghandy played down the CDs,saying that they contained blurred images and proved nothing. No one can make out anything from these CDs. It makes no sense, he said.
