Gujarat High Court today issued notices to the Election Commission of India (ECI), Chief Electoral Officer of Gujarat and the central government on the issue of faulty EVMs and VVPAT machines. <br/><br/>The notices have been issued on a petition filed by State Congress seeking immediate measures to replace the defective Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) and Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) machines. <br/><br/>Congress also demanded setting up an expert committee to make it tamper-proof or conduct of assembly polls by using traditional ballot paper system.<br/><br/>The division bench of Justice Akil Kureshi and Justice Alpesh Kogje fixed 13th November as the next date of hearing on the petition filed by Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee spokesperson Himanshu Patel on behalf of the party. <br/><br/>The court has issued notices to the ECI, Chief Electoral Officer and the Ministry of Law and Justice in Government of India. Earlier, the Election Commission officials had found 3,550 VVPAT devices defective during the First Level Checks. <br/><br/>A total of over 70 thousand VVPAT linked EVM's will be used for the Gujarat assembly polls. <br/><br/>The polling for 182 seats will be held in two phases on 9th and 14th December and counting will take place on 18th December.