New Delhi: An FIR has been filed by the Election Commission (EC) against US-based hacker, Syed Suja, for claiming that the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) were hacked during the 2014 general elections.
The case has now been handed over to the Delhi Police Special Cell.
Syed, who claimed to have worked with the Electronics Corporation of India Limited (ECIL) said that the EVMs were susceptible to tampering. He has also claimed that the members of ECIL team, of which he was a part, were killed, following which he decided to leave the country.
Congress leader Kapil Sibal has demanded that Syed’s allegations should be probed into. However, the BJP has termed the allegations “anti-national.”
Refuting the claims made by Syed, EC in its statement, said, “Through media reports, it has come to the notice of the Commission that allegedly one Mr. Syed Shuja claimed (at an event in London) that he was part of the EVM design team and he can hack the EVMs used in elections in India.”
Even ECIL has clarified that Syed never worked with the company.
Syed had also alleged that social activist Gauri Lankesh was killed for trying to expose the EVM tampering issue and linked BJP leader Gopinath Munde’s death to the EVM-rigging issue.
