The Bombay High Court has dismissed a public interest petition challenging the integrity of the Maharashtra Assembly elections. The court also criticized the plea, calling it a waste of judicial time. The petition had claimed massive irregularities—including bogus votes and irregularities in the process—but the court found no credible evidence to support these allegations and ruled it out of bounds without proper legal standing .

The petition, filed by voter Chetan Ahire, alleged roughly 7.6 million bogus votes were cast after the polls closed on November 20, 2024. It relied on an ambiguous RTI response purportedly showing no data on those votes .

The judiciary found no proof of fraud, stating that election challenges must follow the established election petition mechanism, which the petitioner hadn’t utilized .

It reaffirmed the legality of EVM use, as upheld by the Supreme Court, and emphasized that baseless challenges like this amount to an abuse of legal process .

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