In the case of the alleged tampering and manipulating of the electronic voting machines, the High Court of Uttarakhand has given the petitioners a time of two weeks for submissions of objections. According to the case details, a petition had been filed against the MlAs Munna Singh Chauhan, Khajan Das, Adesh Kumar Chauhan, Umesh Sharma ‘Kau’, Ganesh Joshi, Vijay Singh Panwar, Yateeshwaranand, Harbhajan Singh Cheema and Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat. The petitioner has alleged that there are anomalies in voters list, nomination along with tampering with the voting machines. In the past the court had ordered these EVMs to be sealed. The Election Commission had submitted an affidavit in the high court and stated that the returning officer of the election commission had been wrongly made a party in this case. The commission had contended that the name of its returning officer shoud be removed from among the names of the parties in the case. The Election Commission had also stated that according to the section 82 of the representation of the people act, the Election Commission and its returning officer cannot be made parties in the case. The case was taken up for hearing before the single bench of the High Court Justice Sarvesh Kumar Gupta which directed the petitioners to submit its objections within a time period of two weeks. The next date of hearing of this case in the High Court has now been sent for August 22.