The Supreme Court today issued notice on a plea filed against passing of blanket orders under Section 144 CrPC (prohibiting public meetings, etc) ahead of Lok Sabha/Vidhan Sabha elections and.
The Supreme Court on Thursday (April 18) reserved judgment on a batch of petitions seeking 100% verification of Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) data with Voter-Verifiable Paper Audit trail.
On a mentioning by Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal, the Supreme Court today said that the matter pertaining to Electronic voting machine (EVM) data cross-checking against voter-verifiable paper audit.
At request of petitioners, the Supreme Court today allowed pleas challenging provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 (UAPA) to be withdrawn.The Bench of Justices Bela M Trivedi.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused, for a second time, to ban a contentious new law on the appointment of election commissioners; the court has, though, added the petition to a list of pending cases and said these will be heard in April.