Former Karnataka minister H Halappa, arrested on charge of rape, today claimed before the high court that the video footage on the alleged incident involving his friend's wife had been tampered with. <br/><br/>Moving the bail application, senior counsel Ravi B Naik said the video had been tampered as if to make it appear as a rape case and the woman and her husband had falsely implicated Halappa to tarnish his reputation. <br/><br/>Naik argued that there were differences between the FIR and the purported video footage, claimed to have been shot by Chandravathy's husband last November. Justice B V Pinto, adjourning the hearing on the bail application to May 13, directed the public prosecutor to file objections, if any on that day. <br/><br/>Halappa was arrested on May 9 after Chandravathy and her financier husband Venkatesh Murthy filed a police complaint alleging she was raped at their residence in Shimoga, Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa's home district. <br/><br/>After the rape charge surfaced, Halappa quit from the ministry but has denied the allegation saying it was a political conspiracy. Halappa, who has been remanded to judicial custody till May 24, is in a hospital after he complained of chest pain immediately after his arrest.