The Supreme Court on Friday declined to entertain a writ petition seeking an independent audit of the source code governing the entire Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) system.
A ‘source code’ is a set of written instructions to a machine’s hardware. It provides a virtual window into the inner workings and processes of an electronic device.
Appearing before a Bench headed by Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud, advocate Sunil Ahya, who was the petitioner-in-person, said the source code was the “brain of an electronic machine”.
