Might compromise voters' privacy, says bench

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has orally refused to permit making the machine-readable voters list available, clarifying that this might compromise the voters’ privacy.

The SC bench of Justices Surya Kant and Bagchi, heard on Tuesday the petitions challenging the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls, which will be held by the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) in Bihar, Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry and West Bengal, among other states, according to a report by LiveLaw.

The judges said that, as the Election Commission of India (ECI) held the voters’ data in trust, it had the right to adopt methods to ensure the data remained protected. The judges, however, directed the ECI to find password-protection techniques that give easy acc

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