Supreme Court Orders Election Commission to Preserve EVM Data for Verification

The court has directed the Election Commission to respond within 15 days to a petition seeking stricter verification protocols for EVMs and their data integrity.

• The Supreme Court instructed the Election Commission to refrain from erasing or reloading EVM data until a thorough examination is conducted.
• The directive was issued in response to a petition by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) advocating for EVM hardware and software checks to prevent potential tampering.
• Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna emphasized the importance of preserving EVMs and their paper trails for post-election verification.
• The court highlighted the need for an engineering assessment to determine whether any manipulation of EVMs has occurred.
• The Election Commission has been given 15 days to respond to the petition, with the next hearing scheduled for March 17.

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