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Hearing the case, the bench said, “You have an interesting PIL. Where do you get these brilliant ideas?” The petitioner told the court that he is the president of an organization which has saved more than 3 lakh orphans and 40 lakh widows. The court replied, “Why are you coming into this political arena? Your work is completely different from this field.” After this, when Paul said that he had traveled to more than 150 countries, the court asked him whether voting was done through ballot paper or electronic voting was used in these countries. On this, Paul said that other countries have adopted the process of voting through ballot paper and India should also do the same.
Why don’t you want to be separated from the world?
After this the Supreme Court said, why don’t you want to separate from the rest of the world? In response to which Paul said that corruption has taken place and in June of this year i.e. 2024, the Election Commission informed that they have seized Rs 9 thousand crores. The court then said, “But how does that make you right? If the country goes back to voting, will there be no corruption?”
“We never received money for any election”
Furthermore, petitioner Paul claimed that Tesla CEO and co-founder Elon Musk has said that EVMs can be tampered with. Andhra Pradesh CM and Telugu Desam Party chief N Chandrababu Naidu and former state chief minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy have also claimed that EVMs could be tampered with, he said.
On this the bench said, “When Chandrababu Naidu was defeated, he had said that EVMs could be tampered with. Now this time Jagan Mohan Reddy has lost, so he has said that EVMs can be tampered with. Paul further said that everyone knew that money was distributed in the elections and the bench remarked, “We have never received money for any election.”