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Rejecting the petition, the court said that we did not find any illegality (in the ECI decision). The PIL also claimed that voters would be discouraged from exercising their franchise as arrangements had not been made to collect phones at polling stations.
The Bombay High Court said there is no illegality in the Election Commission of India’s decision to ban the use of mobile phones at polling stations in the upcoming state assembly elections. A division bench of Chief Justice DK Upadhyay and Justice Amit Borkar dismissed a PIL filed by city lawyer Ujala Yadav against the ban on mobile phones at polling stations in the Maharashtra Assembly elections to be held on November 20. The PIL had urged the High Court to direct the ECI and the State Election Commission to allow voters to carry phones and show their identity proof through the DigiLocker app launched by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.
The bench said that the ECI has the power to take any measures for the smooth conduct of the election process. The court said that the process of conducting elections is anyway a cumbersome process. And in this you (petitioner) are saying that the documents should be shown in DigiLocker. The bench said that no person has any right to show his documents on his phone through a digital locker for verification.
Rejecting the petition, the court said that we did not find any illegality (in the ECI decision). The PIL also claimed that voters would be discouraged from exercising their franchise as arrangements had not been made to collect phones at polling stations.
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