The plea was moved on the grounds of malfunctioning, mismatch and discrepancies in the electronic voting machines (EVMs) during post-counting verification. Chennai: Madras high court on Monday reserved its orders on a plea by DMK chief M K Stalin seeking to nullify the victory of TVK MLA V S Babu from the Kolathur assembly constituency.
The first bench of Chief Justice Sushrut Arvind Dharmadhikari and Justice G Arul Murugan reserved the orders after the arguments of senior counsel Kapil Sibal who sought 100% counting of the VVPAT and checking and verification of all the 286 electronic voting machines used in the constituency. He submitted an application for the post-counting checking and verification of the EVMs on May 7, according to Stalin. But ECI conducted the exercise only from July 29 after a 45 days-delay. Total 14 machines were to be checked, and three of the four machines in the first batch were not functioning; so, another four were selected, of them one was not functioning, Kapil Sibal said.
He added that since ECI held the check after 45 days’ delay and his petitioner could not file an election petition and so the bar under Article 329 of the Constitution will not apply in this case. Representing the ECI, senior counsels G Rajagopalan and Dama Seshadri Naidu, submitted thatthere is a bar on such petitions as per Article 329 (B) of the Constitution and that the petitioner should have approached the ECI before the lapse of the 45 days for holding the post-counting check. You Can Also Check: Gold Rate in Chennai | Silver Rate in Chennai | Bank Holidays in Chennai | Public Holidays in Chennai | Chennai AQI | Weather in Chennai | Petrol Price in Chennai | Diesel Price in Chennai | CNG Price in Chennai | LPG Price in Chennai Stay updated with the latest Chennai news.
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