Telangana high court not to decide now on Election Commission data
It refused to direct the state governments to provide the data attributes of information which they collected through surveys.
Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court said it would consider the question ordering deletion of Aadhaar data with the Election Commission during the final disposal of a petition on the matter.
A division bench headed by Justice V. Ramasubramanian was issuing interim directions on a petition filed by Mr Kodali Srinivas of Miyapur, who wanted the source code of the EC’s software to be revealed.
The court dismissed Mr Srinivas’ interim applications seeking a direction to the TS and AP governments to delete all voter data received from the ECI and State Election Commissions. It refused to direct the state governments to provide the data attributes of information which they collected through surveys.
The bench reject the petitioner’s contention regarding a direction to the ECI and the State Election Commissions to make public any ‘unhidden attributes’ which they had relied on while de-duplicating the voters list. The court asked the petitioner how it could rely on such statements without any avernments.
The petitioner submitted that the usage of this software has led to deletion of 27 lakh votes in Telangana state and 19 lakh in Andhra Pradesh. The EC and the SECs had misled the citizens stating that the deletion was because of the shifting of voters between the two states following bifurcation.