Plea For 100% EVM-VVPAT Verification : Supreme Court Seeks Clarifications From ECI | LIVE UPDATES

ECI : All the three units, CU, BU, VVPAT, have their own microcontrollers. These microcontrolers are housed in it. They cannot be accessed physically. The one-time program is burnt into them.

ECI : All the microcontrollers are one time programmable. They are burnt at the time of manufacturing. They cannot be changed.

Bench re-assembles.

ECI official present.

Bench will hear the matter at 2 PM.

Sr Adv Santhosh Paul : There is a source code (for EVM), which is not disclosed.

Justice Khanna : The source code should never be disclosed. If it is disclosed, it will be misused. It should never be disclosed.

Justice Khanna : The reason given for storage of 45 days was that the period for election petition was 30 days. But when we went through the Representation of the Peoples Act, the limitation period for election petition is 45 days. So accordingly, the period for storage has to be increased.

Bench asks the concerned officer from the Election Commission of India to be present at 2 PM today to answer the queries.

Senior Adv Maninder Singh for ECI assures that the officer will be present at 2 PM.

Justice Khanna : The other thing is whether the Control Unit only is sealed or the VVPAT is kept separately, that we want some clarification.

Justice Khanna : Fourth thing is, it was said limitation for election petition is 30 days and hence the data was stored for 45 days. But as per RP Act, the limitation period is 45 days. So the period for storage may have to be correspondingly increased.?

Justice Khanna : Second thing we wanted to know is the microcontroller installed is it one time programmable? Confirm that. Third thing is, you refer to Symbol Loading Units, how many of them are available?

Justice Khanna : We just wanted 3-4 clarifications. Factually we should correct. One is, is the micro controller is installed in the controlling unit or in the VVPAT? There seems to be indication, we were under the impression that the microcontroller is in the Control Unit. We were told that VVPAT has a flash memory.