Chandigarh/Patiala, Dec. 11 -- Taking a serious note of an audio clip, purportedly of a conversation between the Patiala SSP and other police officers, the Punjab and Haryana high court on Wednesday asked the Bhagwant Mann-led AAP government and the State Election Commission (SEC) to get it examined from the Central Forensic Sciences Laboratory (CFSL) in Chandigarh.

The audio clip was shared on social media a few days ago by Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal, claiming that Patiala SSP Varun Sharma and other police officers had conspired to prevent opposition candidates from filing nominations for the December 14 zila parishad and panchayat samiti polls at the behest of the ruling AAP.

During the hearing, the SEC to...