Chandigarh, Oct. 14 -- Countering Chandigarh Police's claim that the family has refused to hand over the laptop of late Haryana IPS officer Y Puran Kumar, his wife, IAS officer Amneet P Kumar, claimed that the non-seizure of the device occurred due to the technical inability of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) to generate the required digital hash value, and not due to non-cooperation on her part.

A hash value is proof that the digital evidence (like the laptop) stayed exactly the same from the time it was seized to the time it was examined

In a detailed reply submitted to the SIT under Section 94 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023, Amneet on Monday stated that officials from the SIT and the accompanying IT team ...