In Brief
The Supreme Court addressed the fairness of voice sample collection from accused persons in a criminal extortion case. While the appellants had consented to providing voice samples for comparison with a disputed recorded conversation, they objected to reading sentences from allegedly incriminatory material. The Court held that although consent to voice sample collection cannot be withdrawn, the procedure must be fair under Article 21. The Court directed that the text to be read shall contain only individual words (not complete sentences) from the disputed conversation, as needed for proper spectrographic analysis, and that collection must occur at the forensic laboratory under expert supervision to ensure impartiality.
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