ORDER :

1. The petitioner, who appears in person, invokes the jurisdiction of this Court under Article 32 of the Constitution for a direction to the Election Commission of India to conduct an independent audit of the source code governing the Electronic Voting Machines, applying a particular standard, namely, IEEE 1028.

2. The petitioner, during the course of the submissions, submits that the source code must be independently audited and the report of the audit should be placed in the public domain. The petitioner further submits that if the source code is audited, the hash function signature would be available and it should be placed in the public domain.

3. The petitioner had earlier moved a petition under Article 32 of the Constitution before this Court before the General Election of 2019. This Court, by its order dated 8 April 2019, held that in view of the commencement of the General Elections, it was not possible for it to go into the issue raised in the PIL, but the liberty was given to the petitioner to initiate fresh action. Thereafter, the petitioner instituted another PIL in which by an order dated 24 February 2020, this Court permitted the petitioner to move a representati