India, Oct. 15 -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday pulled up the Election Commission of India (ECI) after the poll body said it could not trace the video recording of the 2023 vote count in Karnataka's Sringeri assembly constituency.

Congress MLA TD Rajegowda had sought the footage after a recount ordered by the Karnataka high court overturned his 201-vote win over the BJP's DN Jeevaraj.

A bench of justices Sanjay Kumar and Sanjeev Sachdeva said it would "not accept these kinds of lame excuses" and warned that if the ECI did not produce whatever records it has, it would draw an adverse inference against the commission.

This is not the first time the ECI has faced questions over election footage. Since December 2024, norms over who may in...