India, June 19 -- Days after the Akal Takht asked the Sikh community to ostracise chief minister Bhagwant Mann over a controversial video, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Thursday said forensic examinations by two labs had shown that the man in the video footage was not him.

Addressing the media, AAP leader and cabinet minister Harpal Singh Cheema said this conclusion was based on forensic tests conducted by two Government of India-recognised laboratories. "In these two lab reports, 1,191 different angles have been taken to look at facial recognition, height, body posture and how he (Mann) walks, talks and stands, for analysis. It establishes that the individual seen in the viral video is not Mann," Cheema said, presenting the reports. "The...