The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Election Commission to be flexible in facilitating the right to vote for armed forces personnel, including those of the central paramilitary forces, during general elections.
Declining to pass any other order as it was not necessary, the bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, Justice Dinesh Maheshwari and Justice Sanjiv Khanna said, "It will be open to the Election Commission to introduce flexibility to enable the defence personnel to exercise their voting rights. "
Even as some lawyers sought the introduction of electronic voting, Chief Justice Gogoi said, "We have a bunch of petitions which are seeking going back to (the old practice of) ballot paper and ballot box. "