Plea For 100% EVM-VVPAT Verification : Live Updates From Supreme Court Hearing [Day 2]

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18 April 2024 9:52 AM IST

  • Plea For 100% EVM-VVPAT Verification : Live Updates From Supreme Court Hearing [Day 2]

    The Supreme Court will continue hearing today petitions seeking 100% EVM-VVPAT verification.A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta will hear the matter. For a recap of the previous hearing (April 16), this report can be read.Follow this page for live...

    The Supreme Court will continue hearing today petitions seeking 100% EVM-VVPAT verification.

    A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta will hear the matter. For a recap of the previous hearing (April 16), this report can be read.

    Follow this page for live updates.


    Live Updates

    • 18 April 2024 11:18 AM IST

      Another counsel (for petitioners): Engineers have indirect access to machines, they are not accountable to Election Commission

    • 18 April 2024 11:15 AM IST

      Hegde: Counting is immediate. Audit can take time. There should be a separate audit which would then add greater credibility to counting process. Please consider what safeguards can be put in today

    • 18 April 2024 11:14 AM IST

      Hegde: between 14 and 18 rounds of counting, all votes are counted electronically. Process gets over by 2 PM. Each table has about 3 electoral officers. You have 250 people to quickly count through VVPATs. Counting can't take 13 days

    • 18 April 2024 11:12 AM IST

      Sr Adv Sanjay Hegde (for petitioners): 12 lac slips to be counted...how is counting done even today? it is done parallelly...on each legislative assembly

    • 18 April 2024 11:11 AM IST

      AoR Prashant Bhushan: One possible solution is if they can't change glass at this stage, at least the light should remain on at all times so I can see the slip cutting and falling. No privacy will be compromised.

    • 18 April 2024 11:10 AM IST

      Adv Pasha: Voter should be allowed to take VVPAT slip and deposit in ballot box

      J Khanna: Won't it affect voter's privacy?

      Pasha: Voter privacy cannot be used to defeat voter's rights

    • 18 April 2024 11:09 AM IST

      Adv Pasha: What has not been argued on this side is the rights' contest...all the rights that arise in this case I have pointed out...in electoral bonds matter, my Lords laid down balancing standard

      J Khanna: can you list 4 prongs of proportionality?

    • 18 April 2024 11:06 AM IST

      Adv Nizam Pasha (for petitioners): I just want to respond to a Court query through my written submissions

      J Khanna: I hope you understand the practical results of what you are seeking

    • 18 April 2024 11:05 AM IST

      Hearing begins

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