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SC tells EC to preserve video clips of polling [Read Order]

By Jhanak Sharma      03 February, 2025 01:12 PM      0 Comments
SC tells EC to preserve video clips of polling

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday told the Election Commission to preserve video clips of the polling during the pendency of the pleas against the decision to increase the maximum number of voters per polling station from 1,200 to 1,500.

SC Directs EC to Preserve CCTV Footage of Polling Amid Voter Limit Controversy

A bench of Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Sanjay Kumar issued a direction to the Election Commission, who sought time to respond to the PIL filed by one Indu Prakash Singh.

Singh has challenged validity of the EC's communications in August 2024 for increasing the number of voters per polling stations in each constituency across India.

Supreme Court Seeks EC’s Response on PIL Challenging Polling Booth Voter Increase

The court granted the EC three weeks further time to file the affidavit. It fixed the matter for consideration on March 24, 2025.

"We deem it appropriate to direct respondent no 1 to maintain the CCTV recordings as they were doing earlier," the bench said.

The court on January 15 sought responses from the Centre and the poll panel on Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh's plea against the recent amendments, including no public access to CCTV, to the 1961 election rules.

Singh said the decision to increase the number of voters per polling booth was arbitrary and not based on any data.

On October 24, the court refused to issue any notice to the poll panel but allowed the petitioner to serve the copy to the standing counsel of the ECI so that its stand on the issue is known.

The petitioner contended the poll panel's decision would impact the voters during the ensuing assembly elections in Maharashtra, Bihar and Delhi.

Singh said elections were normally held for 11 hours and it took about 60 to 90 seconds to cast a vote, and therefore 660 to 490 persons could cast their vote in a day at one polling station with one EVM.

In view of the average voting percentage to be 65.70 per cent, it was perceivable that a polling station prepared to accept 1,000 electors saw around 650 turn up. Singh's petition said there were booths where the elector turnout was in the range of 85-90 per cent. "In such a situation, about 20 per cent of voters will either end up standing in the queue beyond the voting hours or due to long waiting times, will abandon exercising their right to vote. Neither is acceptable in a progressive republic or a democracy," it added. 
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