Manipur violence: SC seeks forensic report on audio clips in sealed cover

The petitioner, Kuki Organization for Human Rights Trust, has sought an autarkic probe based connected the tapes into Biren’s alleged relation successful the violence, which has killed much than 200 radical successful Manipur since past May. The Manipur authorities has termed the clips arsenic fake and said that they were released connected societal media successful an effort to derail bid initiatives.

“It is pointed retired that audio clips person been sent for introspection by the CFSL. The study would beryllium produced successful sealed screen earlier the tribunal connected the adjacent day of hearing,” the tribunal directed.

At the precise outset, CJI Khanna told Advocate Prashant Bhushan, who appeared for the petitioner, “There are 2 things. One — the authorities is gradually limping backmost to normalcy. We volition support it connected hold. The 2nd contented is whether we should entertain it oregon the High Court should entertain it.”

Bhushan said the transcripts of the tapes were “very serious” and implicated the CM. The CJI said helium had not gone done the transcripts.

Bhushan said the petitioner had sent the tapes to Truth Labs which has “far much expertise and credibility than CFSL…” and that the laboratory had said it was “his (Biren’s) voice” successful the tapes.

SG Mehta pointed retired that Truth Labs was tally by backstage individuals. He said the “petitioner has immoderate ideological inclinations” and that the court-appointed committee of erstwhile judges has filed reports saying “these civilian nine organisations are wanting to support the cookware boiling… That appears to beryllium the intention. Let that not happen.”

Mehta was referring to the Justice Gita Mittal Committee, which was constituted by the SC past August to code the humanitarian concerns stemming from the violence.

Mehta said an FIR had already been lodged successful August and the petition was filed successful November: “My objection is not hold lone but we said that immoderate they person supplied has been sent to CFSL and a study is awaited. Whoever has uploaded connected their Twitter (X) account, we person approached them besides (asking) if you person the original, delight springiness it to america truthful that (its veracity tin beryllium checked).”

The CJI said, “We are careful. That’s wherefore I said successful the opening itself. This should not go different issue.”

“At the aforesaid time, I don’t cognize the contents of the transcripts, and the veracity also. That’s for you radical to examine… Let the FSL study come,” the CJI added.

Meanwhile, the SC made it wide that the state’s objection arsenic to wherefore the petitioner could not person approached the HC volition stay unfastened and Monday’s bid volition person nary bearing connected it.

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