Supreme Court asked to go to Election Commission for booth -wise data of voting, report in so many days

The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the petitioners to contact the Election Commission for the booth -wise figures of voting. The commission had told the court that it is ready to consider the demand to upload the booth -wise voting percentage on its website. The Supreme Court has directed the petitioners to report before the Election Commission in 10 days.

Supreme Court said what is

A bench of Chief Justice Sanjeev Khanna, Justice Sanjay Kumar and Justice KV Vishwanathan said that the Election Commission advocate says that petitioners can file a report and contact the Commission to resolve their complaints. The Election Commission will hear and inform them on this appeal. This report should be given within 10 days from today.

The case is related to the petition of Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra and NGO Association for Democratic Reform and Common Cause. In this, there was a demand to publish polling station -wise percentage figures and upload Form 17C on the Election Commission website. In Form 17C, information about the votes cast in a polling station is given.

What Election Commission argued

On behalf of the Election Commission in the Supreme Court, senior advocate Maninder Singh said, “The new Chief Election Commissioner has requested me that I should inform the Hon’ble Court that the petitioners can meet them and whatever will be possible, the commission is ready and interested to do it.” He said, “They are ready to meet the petitioners and resolve the pending issues. If the solution does not come out, they can come back to court again.”

Senior advocate Prashant Bhushan, appearing for ADR, said, “We only want to disclose those figures, because some big discrepancies have been seen in it.”

What did the petitioners say

Senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi, appearing on behalf of the Trinamool MP, said that the Election Commission’s affidavit states that it is neither practical nor desirable to give part I (polling station-wise data) and part II (constituency-wise data) of Form 17C. He said that although the Commission gives Form 17C to the agent of every polling station, it is necessary to get these figures together to get a complete picture. He said, “There are 543 Lok Sabha seats. There are 200-300 polling stations in any one assembly constituency. 200-300 agents of every political party will have this form, there is no dispute. But if the 10 votes recorded at the end of polling are 50 votes the next day, then the overall figure is required to investigate it.”

Justice Vishwanathan questioned whether political parties cannot submit this data through their candidates. On this, Bhushan said that he does not have agents at all booths.

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