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The Supreme Court connected Monday (January 7, 2026) asked the Union authorities to guardant to the National Forensic Sciences University (NFSU) successful Gujarat the full audio clip submitted by a Kuki rights organisation who has alleged that the leaked dependable signaling points to the relation played by erstwhile Manipur Chief Minister N. Biren Singh in the 2023 taste violence.
A Bench headed by Justice Sanjay Kumar questioned the government, represented by Additional Solicitor General Aishwarya Bhati, astir the crushed for not sending the audio clip successful its entirety.
Ms. Bhati said the authorities had received the 48-minute signaling lone aft the past apex tribunal proceeding successful December. The instrumentality serviceman said the clip had not been forthcoming contempt enquiries for it.
Advocates Prashant Bhushan and Cheryl d’Souza, for Kuki Organisation for Human Rights Trust (KOHUR), said this lawsuit was listed astatine slightest 10 times successful the past, and the authorities had known that the transcript of the full 48-minute signaling was placed connected grounds earlier the apex tribunal on with the petition.
The Bench asked the petitioner to guardant the full signaling to the government, and told the authorities to guardant it to the NFSU for expedite enactment and submission of study successful a sealed cover.
In December, during the past hearing, the Bench was visibly “disturbed” by an affidavit filed connected behalf of the petitioner successful November that “only prime clippings were sent” for forensics. The NFSU had virtually fixed a cleanable chit, saying the leaked audio clip was “tampered with”.
Mr. Advocate Bhushan had said that astir apt the afloat audio clips filed by them were not sent to NFSU. He had briefed the tribunal that the full audio tapes were of astir 56 minutes and the petitioners had filed 48 minutes successful the court. He said the remaining portion of the audio clip identified the whistleblower. Parting with that information would endanger his life.
KOHUR has sought an autarkic SIT probe into the contents of the audio clip.
