Krishnadas Rajagopal

“So I build a house using my own income, is it the material resource of the community? I own a car, is it the material resource of the community?

Supreme Court acknowledges human errors in EVM-VVPAT system, cites only one discrepancy in 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

The Supreme Court on Friday said a return to paper ballots will bring back the evils of yesteryear, mainly booth-capturing, and it was anyway “impossible to pre-programme Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) in a spurious manner”.

The Supreme Court on Friday said feeding serial numbers and names of candidates and their party symbols in bitmap files (images) in the Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) cannot be equated with uploading a software.

Court says ‘blind distrust' is not helpful, declines pleas for VVPAT slips to be given to electors and for 100% cross-verification; key losing candidates can request and pay for verification, it suggests

In this video, The Hindu's Krishnadas Rajagopal, Sreeparna Chakrabarty, and Aroon Deep discuss the Supreme Court's recent judgement and the technical nuances surrounding the VVPAT system.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal put up a spirited stand in the Supreme Court on April 29 against his arrest in the liquor policy case, saying

Bench tells the agency that ‘life and liberty' is very important; Delhi Chief Minister's petition argues that the action came just before Lok Sabha election in order to crush the Opposition

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