Shrikant Ganpat Shirsat had reportedly admitted to a TV channel on Friday that he had made the “zero vote” charges based on inputs that his aides had given himThe ongoing controversy pertaining to EVMs in the national capital might have an unexpected victim in Mumbai. The State Election Commission (SEC) could soon slap a defamation case on an independent candidate, Shrikant Ganpat Shirsat, who contested the civic polls in the city in February this year and alleged that he didn’t get a single vote, a charge which turned out to be false within days. Shirsat had reportedly admitted to a TV channel on Friday that he had made the “zero vote” charges based on inputs that his aides had given him.

Source: dna May 13, 2017 01:07 UTC