Now if, for a moment, we believe that the EC doesn’t have the VVPAT count – despite the fact that all the circulars clearly indicate that they are required to have received it through CEOs – then why didn’t the EC at least transfer The Quint’s RTI to the PIOs of other States/UTs as it is supposed to?

While giving a judgment in connection with the RTI complaint on 16 June 2011, Shailesh Gandhi, the then-Central Information Commissioner, said,