3 Dec 2024
Neta·ResumeNo profile: this page lists the 6 entries that name Justice Sanjiv Khanna.
Association for Democratic Reforms petitioned the Supreme Court seeking a return to paper ballots or, alternatively, verification of every VVPAT slip against EVM counts. On 26 April 2024 a two-judge bench rejected both demands, holding there was no credible evidence of EVM manipulation and that 5% randomised VVPAT verification with administrative safeguards was adequate, while directing that symbol-loading units be sealed for 45 days after results and allowing the second- and third-placed candidates to request a burnt-memory check of 5% of EVMs per assembly segment. Related petitions making the same demand were rejected days later, and a review petition against the judgment was dismissed on 30 July 2024.
The 26 April 2024 judgment is already recorded as elections-2019-2024-adr-v-eci-vvpat-judgment; the 2019 order raising VVPAT checks from one to five booths per segment (N. Chandrababu Naidu v Union of India, W.P.(C) 273/2019) that preceded this case is elections-2019-2024-vvpat-naidu-order. Not duplicated here. Two new, not-previously-recorded post-judgment orders are added below: the 29 April 2024 dismissal of a parallel petition (Mohit Kumar Bhandari v ECI) and the 30 July 2024 dismissal of the review petition (Arun Kumar Agarwal v ECI).