New Delhi, May 25 -- The Supreme Court on Monday, 25 May declined to entertain a petition challenging Punjab and Haryana High Court's refusal to direct the Punjab State Election Commission to use Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) for upcoming local body polls in the state, legal news agency Bar and Bench reported.

The elections for the local bodies in Punjab are scheduled to be held on 26 May with the counting of votes scheduled to take place on 29 May.

A Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant, Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice Vipul Pancholi said that an "unwise choice" will not make the Court halt an election.

"If State Election Commission did not have power to switch to ballot papers then we would have intervened," Justi...