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New Delhi: The Election Commission has got a big relief from the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court has rejected the review petition demanding 100% matching of VVPAT slips with EVM machines. The bench of Justice Sanjeev Khanna and Justice Dipankar Dutta said in its decision that after considering the grounds given in the petition, we believe that there is no case for reconsideration of the decision of April 26.
What is the whole matter?
In fact, on 26 April, the Supreme Court had rejected the petition demanding 100% matching of VVPAT and EVM machine slips. Along with this, the petition also demanded that the election be conducted using ballot paper, which was rejected by the Supreme Court. The review petition was filed by Arun Kumar Agarwal, who had earlier also filed a PIL on this issue.
Petitioner Arun Kumar Agarwal had argued in his review petition that there were errors in the April 26 decision. After which the review petition said that the existing CCTV surveillance of the counting hall will ensure that there is no tampering in the counting of VVPAT slips.
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