Supreme Court Judgment On EVM-VVPAT Verification : Live Updates

The Supreme Court will pronounce judgment today at 10.30 AM on a batch of petitions seeking 100% verification of the votes recorded in the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) with the Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) slipsA bench comprising Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta had reserved judgment on the petitions on April 18 after two days of hearing. The Court listed the petitions again on April 24 to seek certain technical clarifications from the ECI.As per the causelist, there are two judgments in the case - one by Justice Khanna and the other by Justice Datta.During the hearing, the bench extensively interacted with an official from the Election Commission of India (ECI) to understand the workings of the EVMs and VVPATs and their security features. The ECI asserted that the EVMs cannot be tampered with under any circumstance and that the complete counting of the VVPAT slips was not practically feasible.The writ petitions have been filed by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), Abhay Bhakchand Chhajed and Arun Kumar Aggarwal.The petitioners, stressing that the measures to increase the confidence of the voters must be adopted, argued that a few days' delay in the declaration of results is a small price to pay for the larger goal of a fair and transparent election process. During the hearing, the bench also orally expressed reservations about the manual counting process, saying that human interventions can lead to problems.As per the current practice, the ECI randmoly verifies the VVPAT slips of EVMs from five polling booths per assembly segment in a Parliamentary constituency. This is in terms of a direction passed by the Supreme Court in 2019 which directed the ECI to increase the verification from one polling booth to five polling booths per assembly segment.Follow the live updates in this page.

Supreme Court Judgment On EVM-VVPAT Verification : Live Updates

#BREAKING #SupremeCourt rejects pleas for paper ballot voting, complete EVM-VVPAT verification and physical deposit of VVPAT slips.

Justice Khanna : There are two judgments, concurring.
Justice Khanna : We have elaborately discussed the protocols, technical aspects.
Justice Khanna : We have rejected all the pleas.

A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta will pronounce the verdict.
There are judgments by both Justices Khanna and Datta.
The bench will assemble in a short while.

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Supreme Court Judgment On EVM-VVPAT Verification : Live Updates

#BREAKING #SupremeCourt rejects pleas for paper ballot voting, complete EVM-VVPAT verification and physical deposit of VVPAT slips.

Justice Khanna : There are two judgments, concurring. Justice Khanna : We have elaborately discussed the protocols, technical aspects. Justice Khanna : We have rejected all the pleas.

A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta will pronounce the verdict. There are judgments by both Justices Khanna and Datta. The bench will assemble in a short while.

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Justice Khanna : There are two judgments, concurring.
Justice Khanna : We have elaborately discussed the protocols, technical aspects.
Justice Khanna : We have rejected all the pleas.

A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta will pronounce the verdict.
There are judgments by both Justices Khanna and Datta.
The bench will assemble in a short while.