Audio clips allegedly implicating former Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh in the 2023 ethnic violence were tampered with and not scientifically fit for voice comparison, the National Forensic Science Laboratory (NFSL), Gandhinagar, told the Supreme Court on Monday.

In its report submitted to the top court after examining the audio clips purportedly containing the former Manipur Chief Minister’s voice, the NFSL said no opinion on similarity or dissimilarity of the speakers could be offered.

As advocate Prashant Bhushan, representing Kuki Organisation for Human Rights Trust (KOHUR), demanded that a copy of the NFSL’s report be shared with the parties so that they could respond to it, a Bench of Justice Sanjay Kumar and Justice Alok Aradhe directed the NFSL to submit the final report to

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