Biometric check at booths? Supreme Court seeks govt reply

NEW DELHI: SC connected Monday sought responses from EC and the Centre connected a PIL seeking the instauration of a pan-India fingerprint and iris biometrics database for authentication astatine booth level to halt bogus, proxy, and shade voters. A seat of CJI Surya Kant and justness Joymalya Bagchi told PIL petitioner Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay that it is not imaginable to instrumentality the connection during the ensuing elections, but views of the 2 respondents tin beryllium sought for the anticipation of biometric authentication of voters successful aboriginal parliamentary and assembly elections. The petitioner argued, "At present, elector recognition is based connected elector ID cards and manual verification, which are susceptible to misuse owed to outdated photographs, clerical errors and deficiency of real-time validation. Biometric authentication would destruct duplication/ghost voting." TNN