New Delhi, Feb. 17 -- The Supreme Court on Monday questioned the Centre over the veracity of the translated version of speeches by the jailed climate activist Sonam Wangchuk and ordered the original pen drive supplied to him upon his arrest in September 2025 to be produced by Thursday.

The court's order came at the penultimate day of the hearing in the matter filed by Wangchuk's wife Gitanjali Angmo seeking his release on the ground of procedural lapse by the authorities in denying him grounds of arrest and his claim that his speeches delivered over the past few years have been distorted to suggest that he instigated the violence in September last year that killed four people and injured hundreds.

Appearing for Angmo, senior advocate Ka...