The Supreme Court on Monday issued a notice to the Election Commission of India (ECI), the Centre and states over a plea seeking to implement finger and iris biometric identification system at polling stations to prevent duplicate voting. The plea was filed by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay.
The notice was issued by a two-judge bench that included Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi. However, they made it clear that the plea can't be considered for the ongoing assembly elections in West Bengal Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam and the union territory (UT) of Puducherry.
