High Court of Chhattisgarh, Bilaspur, had dismissed the plea of Chhattisgarh Pradesh Congress Committee General Secretary, Girish Dewangan on Monday demanding counting through Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail’s (VVPAT’s) slips.
In the plea Dewangan demanded counting of assembly polls 2018 through VVPAT’s slips instead of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) as there was possibility of its tampering and that the machine was not completely hacking proof.
In the order, the court of Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra had said “In exercise of jurisdiction under article 226, the court could not prescribe new counting norms which are not notified or adhered to the constitutional functionary”.
“Election Commission has been vested the powers under Article 324 of Constitution the works of superintendence, direction and control of elections and the court would not venture to prescribe any set of new counting norms”, the court said.