Chennai, Aug 12 - The Madras High Court Wednesday permitted political party PMK to demonstrate to election commission officials how the electronic voting machine (EVM) can be manipulated.

Hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by PMK's G.K. Mani, a division bench of the high court asked the PMK leader to show to the election commission on Aug 27 how the EVMs could be manipulated.

In his petition, Mani had said several software experts had opined that the EVMs could be manipulated.

Alleging the EVMs were tampered with in the recent Lok Sabha elections, he prayed to the court to order setting up of a committee comprising software experts from the government and private sector to look into the issue.

He sought the court's permission to let his party demonstrate to the election commission how the EVMs could be tampered with.