EVMS ERRONEOUSLY REGISTERED VOTES IN FAVOUR OF BJP: PRASHANT BHUSHAN TELLS SC, COURT ASKS ECI TO EXPLAIN

The Supreme Court on Thursday resumed hearing the plea seeking 100% cross verification of VVPATs with EVMs. Advocate Prashant Bhushan Apparing for ADR told the Supreme Court that at least four electronic voting machines (EVM) erroneously registered votes in favour of BJP during during mock polling in Kasaragod on Wednesday, April 17 as reported by a Manormama.

According to the report cited in the court by Bhushan, LDF and UDF candidates' agents have alleged that at least four EVMs erroneously registered votes in favour of BJP during mock polling in Kasaragod on April 17.

A complaint has also been filed by LDF candidate and CPM leader M V Balakrishnan with the District Collector Inbasekar K, designated as the District Election Officer. The UDF candidate Rajmohan Unnithan's agent Muhammed Nasar Cherkalam Abdulla has also urged the assistant returning officer (ARO) in Kasaragod Lok Sabha constituency to change the erring machines, the report said.

A bench of Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta resumed hearing the pleas and asked the ECI to check allegations.

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