The Supreme Court has sought the response of the Election Commission on the possibility of using electronic voting machines, EVMs, with Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail, VVPATs, in the Gujarat assembly election later this year.<br/><br/>A bench of Chief Justice J S Khehar and Justice D Y Chandrachud yesterday directed election commission to file an affidavit in four weeks detailing the number of VVPAT machines and the possibility of its use in upcoming elections. The bench said, it may direct the poll panel to use VVPATs with EVMs.<br/><br/>The apex court was hearing a plea filed by a Gujarat community leader seeking the use of either ballot paper or EVMs<br/>with VVPAT for the assembly election in the state.