The Supreme Court docket on Tuesday refused to entertain a PIL searching for instructions to the Election Fee to switch the symbols of a political occasion on the Digital Voting Machine (EVM) with private particulars and images of candidates.
A bench of Chief Justice of India U U Lalit and Justice Bela M Trivedi disposed of the plea after the counsel showing for the ballot physique assured that the authorities involved would look into the illustration submitted by petitioner Advocate Ashwini Upadhyay.
The petitioner contended that if the candidates’ particulars are required to be given, the events could be pressured to provide tickets to these with credibility and thus cut back criminality from creeping into politics.
Lawyer Common R Venkataramani, nonetheless, mentioned that whereas the considerations are properly taken, he discovered it tough to agree with the logic of the argument superior by the petitioner. He mentioned that voting on the EVM comes on the finish of polling course of whereas the selection of whom to vote for is taken a lot earlier than that. “So, to say the image is probably the most mischievous half I feel isn’t proper…Each political occasion has an id. Image is probably the most best level of id,” he instructed the bench.
CJI Lalit additionally identified that election is integrally related with a political occasion and that’s the reason the ethos of the tenth Schedule is that an individual who’s elected shouldn’t change over.