The Supreme Court on Monday ordered the Central Forensic Science Laboratory to submit in a sealed cover a allegedly linking Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh to the ethnic violence in the state, Live Law reported.

The order by a bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Sanjay Kumar came on a petition by the Kuki Organization for Human Rights Trust. The organisation has into the audio recordings claiming that the tapes feature the chief minister taking credit for “how and why the conflict started”.

Advocate Prashant Bhushan, representing the petitioner, told the court that the tapes had been examined by independent forensic laboratory Truth Labs. The laboratory had confirmed with 93% certainty that the voice heard in the recordings was that of the chief minister, he said.

In the recordings, a voice purported to be that of Singh is heard taking credit for “” bragging that he had defied Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s order in the conflict and shielding individuals who from the state police armouries from arrest.

Bhushan claimed the chief minister’s alleged comments had been recorded by a person in a closed-door meeting and had leaked the tapes. He argued this...