Supreme Court  dismissed the PIL filled seeking the reentry of paper ballot in elections in India. The petitioner mentioned that leaders like Andhra Pradesh CM Chandrababu Naidu and Former Andhra Prdaesh CM YS Jagan Mohan Reddy has questioned the tampering of EVM.

Replying to this the bench said, “”When Chandrababu Naidu or Mr Reddy lost, they say that EVMs are tampered and when they won, they don’t say anything. How can we see this? We are dismissing this. This is not the place where you argue all of this.”

The bench of Justice Vikram Nath and Justice PB Varale dismissed the public interest litigation filed by KA Paul, who is an evangelist. The plea seeks the physical paper ballot for voting in India.

KV Paul stated that EVM’s can be tampered and India should follow the practice of using paper ballot instead of Electronic Voting Machine.

He further added by saying that, EVM is a threat to democracy. He said that personalities like Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk had raised concern on the issue of EVM tampering.

Plea Raises Other Issues

The plea raises the other issues like- to raise the issue to the Election Commission to disqualify the candidates for five years if they are caught while giving money, liquor and bribe during the election time.