New Delhi, March 28 -- A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been filed before the Supreme Court seeking directions to the Election Commission of India (ECI) to implement a finger and Iris biometric identification system at polling stations in the upcoming Assembly elections to curb electoral malpractices such as duplicate voting, impersonation, and ghost voting.

The petition has been filed by advocate and social activist Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay, invoking Article 32 of the Constitution, raising concerns over the continued instances of bribery, undue influence, personation, duplicate voting, and ghost voting despite existing safeguards.

In his main prayer, the petitioner has urged the top court to direct the ECI to introduce fingerprint ...