A Trinamool Congress leader had filed a petition that the results of EVM (Electronic Voting Machines) should be 100 per cent verifiable by Voter-Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT). The Supreme Court has junked the petition, saying it couldn’t interfere in the middle of the poll process.
“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 noted.
Gopal Seth of Trinamool Congress had filed the plea to the top court after having been rebuffed by the Calcutta High Court.
The Supreme Court in 2019 had rejected a plea filed by several political parties for 50% VVPAAT verification during the Lok Sabha polls.
