The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a plea searching for a breathalyser test of voters in queue at each polling sales space through the elections. A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta refused to intervene with the Andhra Pradesh High Court order dismissing the petition and mentioned, “It is more of a publicity interest litigation”.
The bench mentioned, “What is this? It is for publicity. On polling day it is a dry day and police personnel are deployed everywhere. We will not entertain this. Dismissed.” The Andhra Pradesh unit of the Janavahini Party has initially moved the excessive courtroom, which had dismissed the plea on February 28.
The excessive courtroom has mentioned the petitioner has failed to attract its consideration to any particular authorized provision which might make it compulsory for the Election Commission of India, to make sure that each one that enters a polling sales space is subjected to a breathalyser test earlier than an individual is permitted to forged his/her vote.
The political celebration has challenged the inaction on the half of the Election Commission on its illustration dated January 6 searching for the association of a respiration analyser at the entry level of the queue being maintained at each polling sales space and permitting solely these voters to train their voting proper, who’re uninfluenced by alcohol.
It has sought route to the ballot panel to rearrange a respiration analyser at the entry level of queues at polling booths and permit solely these voters to train their voting proper, who’re uninfluenced by alcohol.
(With PTI inputs)
