New Delhi, Oct. 15 -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday took serious exception to the Election Commission of India's claim that it could not trace the video recording of the 2023 vote count in Karnataka's Sringeri assembly constituency. "How can the Election Commission of India (ECI) say that it has lost its record? Whatever you have, produce it on the next date. We will not accept these kinds of lame excuses," a bench of justices Sanjay Kumar and Sanjeev Sachdeva told the ECI. The court was hearing a plea by Congress leader TD Rajegowda, who was unseated following a recount of postal ballots in the constituency, where he had defeated BJP candidate DN Jeevaraj by a narrow margin of 201 votes in the 2023 Karnataka assembly elections. Senior advocate Seshadri Naidu, appearing for the ECI, said the video recording of the original counting could not be traced. P4...