PIL questions lack of paper trail facility in Assembly polls

Janhit Party, a local organisation, has filed a petition in the Bombay High Court challenging Election Commission's decision to use paperless electronic voting machines without printers for next month's Maharashtra Assembly polls.
Electronic voting machines will be used in 288 Assembly constituencies but printers will be provided only in 13, it says.
A division bench of Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice M S Sonak would hear the petition on September 25, said Clifford Martis, the petitioner's lawyer.
The Supreme Court had directed the Union Government and the Election Commission to use EVMs with printers for keeping a paper trail, it says, adding that despite this, printers were used only in eight of the 543 Lok Sabha constituencies in the recent elections.