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 top court also rejected the prayers of petitioners to return to ballot paper voting system, calling it foible and unsound.
The bench among other issues sought clarity from the poll panel officials whether the micro controller is installed in the controlling unit or the VVPAT and the flash memory of the microcontrollers in EVMs cannot be reprogrammed.
The bench of Justices Sanjiv Khana and Dipankar Datta had last week reserved its verdict on a batch of public interest litigations in the matter.
As per the causelist published on the website of the apex court, the issue is listed before a bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta “for directions” on April 24.
The top court also set aside the Bombay High Court order declining the plea for the medical termination of her pregnancy.
The special PMLA court in Ernakulam had refused to defer proceedings on Santiago Martin’s application seeking that the trial in the alleged money laundering case be kept in abeyance till the predicate case registered by the CBI is decided.
The Delhi High Court had rejected his plea challenging ED arrest in the liqour policy linked money laundering case.
A bench of Justice M M Sundresh and Justice S V N. Bhatti said, “If you (Gautam Navlakha) have asked for it (house arrest), you have to pay (the expenses on security). You cannot escape your liability.”
A bench of Justice Abhay S Oka and Justice Ujjal Bhuyan asked Google India to explain the working of its PIN location-sharing feature.
The public interest plea has sought direction to the central government to consider putting in place a statutory mechanism to regulate medical intervention with intersex infants and children.