The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a PIL seeking an audit of the so🐟ftware used in electronic voting machines (EVMs) used by the Election Commission.
A bench comprising Ch💖ief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra said no actionable material that the poll panel “acted in bre൩ach of constitutional mandate” in holding polls has been placed before it.
“The Election Commission is entrusted with the control over elections. Presently, the🍰 petitioner places no actionab🀅le material before this court to show that the poll panel has acted in breach of its constitutional mandate. There is no material before us which casts doubt on EVMs,” the bench said.
Before filing the petition, PIL peti൩tioner Sunil Ahya had made representations to the Election Commission seeking an inde🦂pendent audit of the source code of the EVMs.
“꧑The source code is the brain behind the EVM and it is about survival of democracy,” A💯hya said.
