Supreme Court Directs EC Not To Delete Election Data On EVM Plea

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According to the report, the top court bench of Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Dipankar Datta told EC not to erase the data and reload the data, and let someone examine it.

The Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) had filed the plea. During the hearing, ADR's counsel Prashant Bhushan said that the organisation sought the procedure that the EC needed to adopt as per the Supreme Court judgment in consonance with their standard operating protocol.

“What we want is that somebody should examine the software and the hardware of the EVMs in order to see if the software and hardware has any element of manipulation or not,” Bhushand argued.