The Supreme Court is likely to pass directions or seek clarification over a batch of public interest litigations (PILs) seeking a direction to the Election Commission of India (ECI) to mandatorily cross-verify the votes cast in Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) with Voter-Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) slips.
A bench headed by Justice Sanjiv Khanna has listed the matter for Wednesday, April 24.
The apex court has reserved its verdict on the matter on April 18. Observing that official acts are normally presumed to be done validly under the Indian Evidence Act, the court remarked that everything done by the poll body cannot be suspected.
In April 2019, the Supreme Court ordered the ECI to increase the VVPAT slips from one Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) per Assembly constituency to five.
It had issued guidelines for mandatory verification of VVPAT slips, out of five randomly selected polling stations, after completing the final round of counting votes recorded in EVMs.
A VVPAT is considered an independent verification system for voting machines, allowing voters to verify whether they have correctly cast their votes.
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