KOHUR slams witch-hunt of its chairman
Source: Chronicle News Service

Kangpokpi, January 30 2025: Kuki Organisation for Human Rights Trust (KOHUR) has criticised Manipur Police for relentlessly targeting its chairman HS Benjamin Mate, in connection with the alleged leaked audio tapes of chief minister N Biren Singh.

KOHUR claimed that despite the Supreme Court of India already receiving a sealed forensic report confirming authenticity of the tapes on January 23, Manipur Police are on the look-out for Mate, fabricating excuses under the guise of 'recording his statement' .

This intimidation tactic is nothing more than a desperate attempt to silence a human rights defender and suppress the truth.

Senior advocate Prashant Bhushan has already exposed this unconstitutional harassment before the Supreme Court, it claimed.

KOHUR has made its stance clear that the alleged leaked tapes were already viral across social media and widely reported by national media before being submitted as evidence.

The police hounding Mate and his family is a direct attack on democracy, human rights, and the rule of law.

"This state-sponsored witch-hunt only proves that the state government is rattled, guilty, and desperate to erase evidence of its crimes.

If the police truly seek answers, they should start by interrogating chief minister N Biren Singh himself, who knows exactly who was present when he made his damning confessions," the body asserted.

KOHUR has vowed immediate legal action against the Manipur Police, particularly officers from Churachandpur and Tengnoupal police stations, who are leading the crackdown.

"Manipur's oppressive regime will not silence the truth.

The orchestrators of ethnic cleansing will face justice.

The voices of the persecuted will not be drowned out" .

"The fight for justice has only begun," stated the press statement of KOHUR Department of Information & Publicity.

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