No SC directive on voter turnout data to poll body

Says it favours a hands-off approach amid the ongoing electoral process in the country THE Supreme Court on Friday refused to issue any order to the Election Commission of India on a plea seeking directions to upload polling station-wise voter turnout data on its website within 48 hours of voting for each phase of the Lok Sabha elections.

- SUCHITRA KALYAN MOHANTY

While declining to pass any order on the plea of the Association for Democratic Reforms and Mahua Moitra, a vacation bench of justices Dipankar Datta and Satish Chandra Sharma said, "We did not find any merit in the prayers to issue any direction to the ECI." Noting that the interim request by the petitioners was the same as that sought in the main petition pending before the court since 2019, the bench said, "Granting the interim re