Chennai: The Madras high court has dismissed a public interest litigation filed by actor Mansoor Ali Khan, seeking a direction to the Tamil Nadu State Election Commission to permit him to test the Electronic Voting Machines to demonstrate that tampering is taking place in the voting process using EVMs.
A division bench comprising Justices S. Manikumar and Subramonium Prasad dismissed the PIL.
In his PIL, Mansoor Ali Khan sought a direction to the state election commission to permit him to test/work out the electronic voting machine for a continuous period of 7 days with the aid of experts/technically skilled people in the field, under the supervision of a retired Supreme Court or high court judge to demonstrate and prove that tampering is taking place in the voting process using EVM, by duly recording all the events that are taking place during such inspection using video camera or CCTV.
He alleged that when the ballot system was in existence, there were no high level complaints, apart from counting mistakes. But, from when these EVMs have been introduced, the entire election process has gone far away from the public and has reached the influential political parties who use the same as per their whims and fancies in collusion with the bureaucrats in the Election Commission of India, to make sure their victory.
