Supreme Court seeks response on EVMs with VVPAT

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Centre to file their replies by May 8 on petitions filed by the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and a Samajwadi party MLA challenging voting through Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) without addition of Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT).

A bench of Justices J. Chelameswar and Abdul Nazeer issued notice to the Union government after hearing senior counsel and former finance minister P. Chidambaram appearing on behalf of BSP and SP MLA.

The court also permitted Congress, Trinamul and other parties to intervene after senior counsel Kapil Sibal informed that Congress party was also intervening in the matter.