Supreme Court rejects 100 per cent cross verification of EVM votes with VVPAT slips
The top court also rejected the prayers of petitioners to return to ballot paper voting system, calling it foible and unsound.
The West Bengal government on Wednesday sought an urgent hearing of its plea in Supreme Court challenging the Calcutta High Court order directing CBI to take over the probe into the alleged attack on ED officials in Sandeshkhali on January 5 and custody of main accused TMC leader Sheikh Shahjahan.
Appearing for the West Bengal government, Senior Advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi said, “Urgency is that they wanted overnight compliance in an interim order.”
A bench of Justice Sanjiv Khanna asked Singhvi to move the Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud, saying the latter will order listing the plea.
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Earlier on Tuesday, the West Bengal CID refused to hand over the custody of TMC leader Sheikh Shahjahan to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) after the state government moved the Supreme Court against the Calcutta High Court’s order.
A CBI team that reached the West Bengal police headquarters in Kolkata left empty-handed after the CID refused to allow the central probe agency to take over the probe into Sandeshkhali attack on the officials of Directorate of Enforcement (ED) in January this year.
The high court had directed the state police to hand over the probe to the Central Bureau of Investigation, including the custody of the prime accused and Trinamool Congress leader Shahjahan Sheikh to the central investigating agency.
Soon after the high court order, the West Bengal government moved the Supreme Court, challenging the Calcutta High Court High Court order.
The TMC leader had been evading arrest the January 5 attack on ED officials. While Shahjahan remained in the hiding, several women in Sandeshkhali came out in public and accused him of sexually assaulting them.
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