The Supreme Court will on Wednesday pronounce its order on pleas seeking the complete verification of votes recorded in the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) with Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) slips.

Earlier this month, the Supreme Court had issued a notice to the Election Commission of India (ECI) on a petition seeking the counting of all VVPAT paper slips in elections, instead of verifying only the five randomly selected EVMs.

It contended that if simultaneous verification was done and an additional number of officers were deployed for counting in each Assembly constituency, then complete VVPAT verification could be done in just five to six hours.

During a hearing on April 18, the Commission told the Supreme Court that it was pained by what was said about VVPAT slips in EVMs and underlined that it took "painstaking efforts" to prepare for the elections for the past three years.

Source: India Today