Supreme Court rejects VVPAT review plea filed by 21 opposition parties

Mumbai Live Team
May 7, 6:35 PM IST
Politics

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court rejected a review plea filed by 21 opposition parties that sought an increase in the random matching of VVPAT slips with EVMs in the ongoing Lok Sabha 2019 elections.

The bench headed by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi said the Supreme Court was not inclined to interfere.

We are not inclined to modify our order. [For] how many days will we hear the same matter," the Supreme Court bench said.

The petitioners represented by senior advocate A M Singhvi told the bench that after the apex court had increased the random matching of VVPAT slips with EVMs to five polling booths per assembly segment, now they want it to be increased to 25 per cent at least.

Earlier, the Supreme Court had directed the Election Commission to increase random matching of VVPAT slips with EVMs in five polling booths per assembly segment from one booth.