SC directs forensic examination of full audio clip allegedly linking Manipur violence to ex-CM
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The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the National Forensic Sciences University to examine an audio clip allegedly linking former Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh to the ethnic violence in the state, PTI reported.
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The order was issued by Justices Sanjay Kumar and K Vinod Chandran after the petitioners, the Kuki Organization for Human Rights Trust, said that they were placing the complete audio clip on record, which was more than two hours long.
The bench directed the forensic laboratory in Gujarat to analyse the recording and compare the voice sample in it with that of Biren Singh, the news agency reported.
In the recordings believed to be from 2023, a voice purported to be that of Biren Singh is heard taking credit for “how and why the conflict started”, bragging that he had defied Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s order against the use of “bombs” in the conflict and shielding from arrest persons who snatched thousands of weapons from the state police armouries.
At least 260 persons have been killed and more than 59,000 persons displaced since the ethnic clashes broke out between the Meitei and Kuki-Zo-Hmar communities in May 2023. There were periodic upticks in violence in 2024 and 2025.
Biren Singh had stepped down as the chief minister in February 2025 amid allegations from Kuki-Zomi-Hmar groups that his response...