On April 26, the Supreme Court rejected all petitions seeking directions to the Election Commission of India (ECI) and the Centre for 100% EVM-VVPAT verification. The petitioners asked for a provision where voters can verify through VVPATs that their vote has been "counted as recorded".

A two-judge bench of the top court, led by Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Dipankar Dutta, gave the verdict on Friday.

The apex court passed two directions in the batch of pleas. The first direction is after the completion of the symbol loading process, the Symbol Loading Unit (SLU) should be sealed and stored at least for 45 days.

The second direction is that after the declaration of election results, the burnt memory in the microcontroller EVM must be made available to be verified by a team of engineers upon the request of the first and second runners-up.

The top court said such requests for verification are to be made within 7 days after the declaration of results, and the expenses shall be borne by the candidates.
In the event of EVM tampering, the expenses on the software verification will be refunded.

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