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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday posted the hearing of the plea of former Haryana Cabinet Minister and five-time MLA Karan Singh Dallal seeking verification and checking of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) used in the recent Haryana Assembly Elections in January 2025.
The former cabinet minister along with Lakhan Kumar Singla (a candidate in the Haryana polls), came up for hearing before a bench headed by Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna.
“A similar plea was filed before a bench of Justice Dipankar Datta and it was withdrawn,” senior advocate Maninder Singh told the bench.
CJI Khanna ordered that the petition be listed for hearing before Justice Datta in the week commencing January 20, 2025.
The minister had earlier approached the apex court through advocate Aljo K Joseph seeking a policy for the verification of EVMs and compliance of an earlier judgement of the top court related to the issue.
Dalal and co-petitioner Lakhan Kumar Singla secured the second-highest votes in their respective constituencies and have sought a direction to the poll panel to implement a protocol for examining the original “burnt memory” or microcontroller of the four components of the EVM — the Control Unit, Ballot Unit, VVPAT and Symbol Loading Unit.
The BJP had returned to power in the state for the third time in a row by winning 48 out of 90 assembly seats in the Haryana assembly elections held recently.
A bench comprising Justice Khanna and Justice Datta had delivered a judgement earlier in April rejecting the demand for bringing back the old paper ballots.
