New Delhi: The Election Commission on Monday accused Congress of attempting to discredit the poll panel by peddling old voter lists that have been corrected while responding to allegations of bogus voters in the electoral rolls of Madhya Pradesh , Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh.The spat between the EC and Congress turned ugly, with the Commission stating that voter lists had been corrected in June itself. The court reserved its verdict on petitions by Congress party chiefs for Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan Kamal Nath and Sachin Pilot EC counsel Vikas Singh told a bench of Justices A K Sikri and Ashok Bhushan that the EC received a representation from Congress about bogus voters on June 3 and the party was informed by June 8 that the problem has been rectified. “On July 31, the draft electoral roll was published and necessary corrections were made as the software employed detects similarity between two voters for the officials to take necessary action after ground level verification,” he said.“Despite the voter list being corrected, Congress continues to peddle mistakes in earlier lists and attempts to discredit a statutory organisation which has earned impeccable reputation for conducting free and fair elections. This is nothing but using forged documents to scandalise the EC,” Singh said.Appearing for Kamal Nath and Sachin Pilot, senior advocate Kapil Sibal and Vivek Tankha pointed out the same photograph being used for 36 voters in just one booth and attempted to use voter lists to show a large number of bogus voters in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. “We want a CBI inquiry into duplicate voters and fix responsibility on EC officials who have indulged in creation of these bogus voters. Who is the EC working for? We alleged that there are 60 lakh bogus voters. EC says it has deleted 24 lakh such voters. We want an inquiry,” Sibal said.Sibal’s taunt made the EC counsel Singh stand up and support the call for an inquiry into the charges but added that those levelling charges be punished if found to be in error. Singh said: “The allegations should be taken to a logical end. Let there be an inquiry. If EC officials are found guilty, let them be punished. But if the petitioners are found to have made wrong charges, they should also face prosecution.”