New Delhi: Expressing confidence that forensic experts will be able to prove the authenticity of audio tapes purportedly containing conversation between Ajit Jogi and an ex-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA, Union Law Minister Arun Jaitley today (Dec 7, 2003) said that apart from this there were "voluminous evidence" against former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister to prove that he attempted to break the party.

"The forensic laboratories, I have not the least doubt, will certify it is a genuine tape. Anybody who can hear Jogi's voice...will certainly be able to make out that it is his voice. Besides this, there is voluminous evidence. There was a press correspondent who saw the incident," Jaitley told NDTV from Raipur.

"Audio tapes are perfectly admissible in evidence. A man who has recorded must come up and say I have recorded. The forensic experts must say it is a non-tampered tape," he said.

Jaitley said the evidence – "all this money, tapes, everything" – had been deposited with the anti- corruption branch.

The phone bills of Jogi and Congress MP P R Kunte who recently defected from BJP, the people in BJP State unit vice president Virender Pandey's house who were present when the money was delivered and Jogi's hand-written letter allegedly promising support to a BJP rebel Government, all pointed at Jogi's involvement, the Law Minister said.

PTI