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| EVM controversy reaches SC | | | Agencies
New Delhi Jul 11: With the leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha L K Advani recently questioning the accuracy of the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs), a PIL has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking directions to the government to appoint a committee of technical experts to ascertain whether EVMs can be tempered with or not to rig an election.
The petition, filed on yesterday by a Hyderabad-based election watch group activist V V Rao and two engineers A Kalkipati and Y Vasya, has contended that the EVMs were not fully tamper-proof and could be easily manipulated.
According to the petitioners, several expert organizations had expressed similar apprehensions that the EVMs used in the elections were not immune from being interfered with.
It is to mention that Senior BJP leader Mr Advani, who was a Prime Ministerial candidate during the recent Lok Sabha polls, had demanded that the election should be held through a manual process as the EVMs were not tamper-proof and the possibility of the election being rigged through the misuse of EVMs could not be ruled out. The petition is likely to be taken up for hearing before the court next week.
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