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29/03/2021

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26/03/2021

Legal News

A petition has been moved in the Madras High Court calling for a court-monitored probe into whether the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has been illegally using Aadhaar data of voters in Puducherry to gain political mileage this election season.

The plea moved by the President of the Democratic Youth Federation of India, Puducherry, A Anand states that Puducherry residents had started receiving SMSes from BJP Puducherry with an invite link to join WhatsApp groups, that were later found to have been run by persons in other BJP-ruled States.

On Wednesday, a Bench of Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy said that the Election Commission could not simply pass the buck in this matter by stating that the case is being probed by the cyber crimes division.

The Court has directed the Commission to file a report in the matter by Friday, when the matter will be heard next. Terming the allegations raised to be a matter of serious concern, the Court observed,

"When the Election Commission is up and about in all other matters and asserts its primacy and authority, it has to look into this allegation immediately and with the degree of seriousness that it deserves."

As per the petitioner, the SMSes in question are being sent to all regions of Puducherry, including Male, Yenam and Puducherry. He has submitted that several booth-level WhatsApp groups have been created by the BJP, Puducherry targeting the voters of the corresponding booth.