SC declines to hear PIL on EVM functioning

New Delhi, Jul 27 (PTI) Supreme Court of Indian Monday
declined to entertain a Public Interest Litigation (PIL),
questioning the functioning of Electronic Voting Machines
(EVMs) and seeking a direction to the Election Commission to
withhold using them till the machines are made tamper proof.

A Bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan while
declining to hear the PIL, directed the petitioner, V V Rao,
to make a representation before the Election Commission in
connection with the matter.

Rao, in his petition, said several experts and election
watch groups have claimed that EVMs could be manipulated. They
have analysed electronics results of several constituencies
and indicated that there is something drastically wrong with
the EVMs, it said.

The existing EVMs are vulnerable and should not be used
for any election till the time the machines are made tamper
proof, Rao claimed in his petition. PTI