Legitimisation of obfuscating the citizen’s view of vital data, coupled with no visible SOP for calculating the numbers that potentially decide the fate of the democratic polity, is deeply disturbing. 

The court says the burnt memory will be verified by the engineers from the manufacturer.  Isn’t there an obvious conflict of interest here?

The use of electronic voting machines (EVMs) has changed the Indian election system to be an Electronic Election System (EES). In any system, it is not sufficient to scrutinise only one part of the system, irrespective of how important that part is. The system must hold its integrity as a whole for being trustworthy.