Overview
- The Maharashtra election office, in an April 7 letter, set a two-day diagnostic check for April 16–17 at an FCI warehouse in Borivali, Mumbai.
- Bharat Electronics Limited, which makes the machines, will run the tests in the presence of candidates, petitioner Mohammad Arif Lalan Khan, and his technical expert.
- The plan covers about 5% of the constituency’s equipment, or roughly 20 EVM-VVPAT sets that include control units, ballot units, and the paper-slip printers known as VVPATs.
- Engineers will only examine burnt memory and microcontrollers, which hold the device’s program, and will not perform a full forensic audit.
- The inspection follows a February Bombay High Court order on Khan’s post-election petition, and Congress leaders say the step could shape future checks as national questions about EVM transparency continue.