The Supreme Court of India on Monday dismissed a plea looking for 100 per cent matching of the voter-verifiable paper audit path (VVPAT) slips with the digital voting machines (EVMs) vote rely to make sure transparency within the elections. The courtroom stated that it’s going to not intervene in the midst of the ballot course of.
Supreme Court of India rejects the plea looking for 100% VVPAT verification of votes: Election Commission of India (ANI) pic.twitter.com/z75BqCymfV— The Times Of India (@timesofindia) April 20, 2021
“We are not going to interfere in the middle of the election process,” a bench comprising Chief Justice S A Bobde and Justices A S Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian famous.
“The special leave petition is dismissed. As a sequel to the above, pending interlocutory applications, if any, stand disposed of,” the bench stated in its order.
The judgment got here within the wake of the continued election course of within the state of West Bengal. The election course of for the opposite 4 states has already been over and the counting of the votes for all of the seats will probably be held on May 2.
The plea was filed by Trinamool Congress chief Gopal Seth, who had approached the highest courtroom after being rebuffed by the Calcutta High Court.
In the petition to the Supreme Court, the counsel contended that the excessive courtroom had stated that the apex courtroom had earlier handed the order on this. However, the bench of the Supreme Court didn’t entertain his requests and dismissed the plea.
The Supreme Court in 2019 had rejected a plea filed by a number of political events for 50 per cent VVPAT verification in the course of the Lok Sabha elections.
In 2019, the Supreme Court had rejected a plea by a number of political events for 50% VVPAT verification in the course of the Lok Sabha elections. However, the highest courtroom had then directed the EC to extend random matching of VVPAT slips with EVMs to 5 polling cubicles per meeting phase.