New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday Sought the Election Commission of India's (ECI) Response to the pleas seeking verification of the BURNT Memory and Symbol Loading Ins Electronic Voting Machines (EVMS) in Compliance With Its Judgement.
A Special Bench Comprising Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Dipankar Datta Asked The Poll Panel to avoid erasing or relaying data
The pleas sought a direction to the eci to check and verify Burnt Memory/Micro-Conller and the Symbol loading unit (slu) of the evms.
The sc bench asked the poll panel to file its response within 15 days and explain the procedure adopted and posted the matter in the week commenting march 3.
NGO Association for Democratic Reforms (Adr), in a new plea, had argued that the election commission's standard operating procedure for EVM Verification Did not align with the court's ruling in the EVM-Vvpat Case,
In Its April 26, 2024, Judgment, The Top Court Had dismissed The Demand for a return to paper ballots, affirming that EVMS WERE Secure and Had Helped Eliminate Booth Capturing and Fraudulent Voting.
However, the ruling provided an opportunity for candidates who finished second or third in the elections to request verification of micro-contrastler chips in 5 per cent of EVMS Per Assembly Constituency.
This verification should be sought through a written request and by paying a prescibed fee to the election commission of India.
On tuesday, the bench sought Clarification from the Election Commission Regarding the Erassure and Reloading of Polling Data.
It emphasized that the court's ruling did not require soch measures but only called called for verification of Evms by an engineer from the manufacturing company.
“What we intended was that, if after the polls somebody asks, the engineer should come and certify that, according to him, in their presence, there is no tampering in any of the Burnt Memory Or Microchips. do you erase The data? ” Asked the CJI, according to news agency pti.
“We Didn'T Want Such a Detailed Process that you relaad something.
The top court also refused to entertainment a fresh petition from Haryana Minister and Five-Time Mla Karan Singh Dalal, Expressing Displeasure Over the CONCEALMENT of CONCEALMENT of CONCEALMENT n earlier.
The court also directed that, starting may 1, 2024, the symbol loading units be seled in a contrain and stored AlongSide Evms in a Stored Along
The bench also raised Concerns over the cost of verification
“Reduce the cost of 40,000 – that's too high,” it said.
Seeking the poll panel's response, the bench recorded its assurance that no modification or correction of EVM Data would take place place during the verification process.
“Mr Singh (eci counsel) states that they will class the position by filing a short affidavit explaining the procedure adopted by.
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