The controversy over a letter sent to US President Barack Obama,purportedly signed by 65 MPs,urging him to deny visa to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi took a new turn on Sunday with a California-based forensic document examiner certifying that the signatures are original and authentic and not a cut-and-paste job as alleged by some of the MPs.
It is my opinion that the… document was created in a single event,and that the signatures found upon it are original/ authentic wet ink signatures, said the report by Nanette Barto,a court-qualified forensic document examiner.
The report was prepared at the request of Coalition Against Genocide,campaigning against Modi,after some MPs like Sitaram Yechury (CPI-M),M P Achuthan (CPI) and K P Ramalingam (DMK) denied having signed the letter. It proves the document is authentic,without any cut and paste operation, said Raja Swamy of Coalition Against Genocide.
However,some MPs maintained that they had not signed the letter. While Yechury,who is in Pyongyang,could not be reached for comment,Achuthan said,I dont remember having signed any such letter…
It is all humbug. The signature is not mine, said DMK MP K P Ramalingam.
The signature is mine. But it seems they used a paper of my signature given for some other representation, said NCP member Ishwarlal Shankarlal Jain.




