Ahead of the Phase 2 polls on April 26, the Supreme Court on Wednesday reserved its judgment on a batch of pleas seeking 100 per cent cross-verification of vote count in electronic voting machines (EVMs) with the Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT).
The bench comprising Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta said it cannot control the elections, which is being supervised by the Election Commission of India, another constitutional authority.
Justice Datta told Advocate Prashant Bhushan, who appeared for the petitioners, that there were no reports on incidents regarding loading of any malicious program in the flash memory of the EVM.
Responding to the questions posed by the Supreme Court on Wednesday morning, the poll panel said that all three devices -- EVM, VVPAT and control unit -- have their own micro-controllers and they can be programmed only once.
