The Supreme Court of India, during a hearing on Monday, expressed irritation over the failure of central forensic laboratories to authenticate an audio clip allegedly linking former Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh to ethnic violence in 2023. The court urged the Centre to consider allowing Singh to visit the National Forensic Science University (NFSU) in Gandhinagar to provide a voice sample for comparison. This request follows a series of unsatisfactory reports from forensic labs, including the Central Forensic Science Laboratory in Guwahati, which had previously indicated that the audio was tampered with. Justice Sanjay Kumar highlighted the inadequacies of the reports, questioning the use of terms like 'pan drive' instead of 'pen drive' and suggesting a need for introspection within the forensic labs. The plea was filed by the Kuki Organisation for Human Rights, which presented the audio clips recorded by a whistleblower.