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Aadhaar can't be insisted upon for any service except subsidies: Supreme Court -Dhananjay Mahapatra and Amit Anand Choudhary

-The Times of India

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday indefinitely extended the March 31 deadline for linking Aadhaar to bank accounts and mobile phones and ordered that except for disbursing subsidies, the Centre and states cannot insist on Aadhaar for any service, including issuance of passports. The extension will be in place till the court delivers its final judgment.

A five-judge constitution bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A K Sikri, A M Khanwilkar, D Y Chandrachud and Ashok Bhushan, which is in the midst of hearing a bunch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of Aadhaar, indefinitely extended the March 31 deadline it had set through its interim order on December 15 linking services to possession of the unique identity number.

“We direct that the interim order passed on December 15 shall stand extended till the matter is finally heard and the judgment (of the court) is pronounced,” it said and clarified that the indefinite extension of Aadhaar linkage deadline “shall apply, besides the schemes of the ministries/departments of the Union government, to all state governments in similar terms”.

'Tatkal passport not issued without Aadhaar'

The Centre’s refusal to issue a passport under Tatkal scheme to lawyer-activist Vrinda Grover, intending to travel to Bangladesh for a conference, without her producing Aadhaar was mentioned by senior advocate Arvind Datar, who told the CJI-headed bench that the Centre, in blatant violation of the SC’s interim order, was insisting on Aadhaar even before March 31.

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