Plea in SC for ensuring safety of EVMs after Lok Sabha elections

The plea said that as alleged it was possible to tamper with the EVMs in broad daylight during post poll situations

Elections:A request in the Supreme Court on Tuesday looked for bearing to the Election Commission to guarantee wellbeing and security of electronic casting a ballot machines (EVMs) after Lok Sabha surveys.

The request, documented by M Srinivasan, President of Tamil Nadu Annal Ambedkar Law Association, has alluded to news gives an account of anxieties of some resistance groups that EVMs might be altered even after the surveys.

The request, which may come in the mood for hearing one week from now, said that the Chief Election Commissioner be coordinated to guarantee that EVMs are not messed with amid the post surveys period.

“The main statutory and authoritative check accessible to ensure and save the trust in the EVMs was in the hands of Election Commission of India yet what is the ground the truth is the exceptionally unbiased working of Election Commission of India is in question,” it said.

The request said that as supposed it was conceivable to mess with the EVMs without trying to hide amid post survey circumstances since it was a dull period in which the machines have next to no entrance to external world but to a constrained managerial functionaries.

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