The forensic analysis report was filed on Tuesday after the Hyderabad CFSL examined one control unit, one ballot unit, and two batteries, and stated that nothing could be detected
In a case in which a Congress party candidate had filed an election petition in the Bombay High Court (HC), claiming that he had lost to a Bharatiya Janata Party candidate in the 2014 Maharashtra assembly elections, as an Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) was tampered with, a forensic analysis report submitted in court by the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (Hyderabad) stated that 'no evidence of tampering', 'altering' or any other 'manipulation' could be detected in the EVM.
The report was submitted after the HC had, in May, asked a returning officer in Pune to send the EVM to the laboratory. The direction was given while hearing an election petition filed by a Congress party candidate Abhay Chhajed who lost to BJP candidate Madhuri Misal.
The forensic analysis report was filed on Tuesday after the Hyderabad CFSL examined one control unit, one ballot unit, and two batteries, and stated that nothing could be detected.
The report states that control and ballot unit were scanned through X-ray viewing machine, no additional external devices were mounted, no additional internal devices were embedded and there was no evidence of tampering.In its order, the court had posed nine questions to the laboratory to answer. One of them was whether there exists any electronic part or device within the EVM, which can remotely connect with external devices, with the help of infrared or blue tooth or similar technology.
The report answered this query by stating, "Control unit is scanned through an electromagnetic detector, the spectral analysis of the electromagnetic detector reveals that no foreign body like bluetooth, wireless fidelity, infrared were embedded in the control unit."
The report also clarified that control unit and ballot unit were forensically analysed and found that they are stand-alone, non-networked, one-time programmable machine, which is neither computer controlled externally nor could be connected internally or to any network.
FALSE CLAIMS?
- Abhay Chhajed said he had received much fewer votes than expected. He said in his application that 89 voters from two booths had given an affidavit stating that they had voted for him, but he actually got only 69 votes from these booths.
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