The Supreme Court on April 3 has agreed to list a series of petitions seeking direction to the Election Commission of India to mandatorily cross-verify the count in Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) with votes verifiably recorded as cast by counting all Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) slips ahead of the Lok Sabha polls.
Justice Sanjiv Khanna, who heads the Bench, assured senior advocates Kapil Sibal, Prashant Bhushan, Gopal Sankaranarayanan and advocate Neha Rathi, all appearing for various petitioners, including the NGO Association for Democratic Reforms, that the case would be listed the week after next.
A total of 102 Parliamentary constituencies in 21 States and Union Territories (UTs) would go to the polls in the first phase on April 19.
