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SC shoots down NGO’s plea for real-time polling data
Updated On: 25 May, 2024 08:33 AM IST | New Delhi | Agencies
Top court adopts ‘hands-off approach’ during elections, citing manpower constraints and potential chaos for EC
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Officials with EVMs and other material leave for poll duty. File pic/PTI
The Supreme Court on Friday refused an NGO’s plea to issue the Election Commission directions to upload polling station-wise voter turnout data on its website during the Lok Sabha polls, saying a “hands-off approach” needs to be adopted during the elections.
A vacation bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and Satish Chandra Sharma said it cannot issue any such directions at the moment as five phases of polling have concluded and two remain and it would be difficult for the poll panel to mobilise manpower.
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