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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | June 30 not a 'deadline' to get Aadhaar, govt. tells SC -Krishnadas Rajagopal

June 30 not a 'deadline' to get Aadhaar, govt. tells SC -Krishnadas Rajagopal

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published Published on May 20, 2017   modified Modified on May 20, 2017
-The Hindu

Court defers petition to June 27 for omnibus hearing

The Supreme Court on Friday refrained to order an interim stay on a series of government notifications requiring citizens to have Aadhaar by June 30, 2017, to equally access benefits and entitlements, even as the Centre denied imposing any such ‘deadline” to force people to get Aadhaar.

The government was responding to a petition challenging 17 notifications issued by various government departments over the past few months, making Aadhaar compulsory after June 30, 2017, to equally access benefits, entitlements, services and welfare schemes. The petition asked the court to stay these notifications as an immediate interim relief.

A Bench of Justices A.M. Khanwilkar and Navin Sinha deferred to June 27 the hearing on the petition after learning that there were other pleas with identical prayers already pending in the court. The court said it would hear all the pleas in an omnibus hearing on June 27, just three days before the notifications are scheduled to be implemented from June 30.

‘Inbuilt extensions’

Attorney-General Mukul Rohatgi submitted that there were “inbuilt extensions” in these notifications to help citizens access services and schemes even if they are unable to possess an Aadhaar card by June 30. He said June 30 was not a hard-and-fast “deadline.”

At one point, when Justice Khanwilkar asked whether the date could be extended beyond June 30, the AG declined, saying that this date was not a hard-and-fast “deadline” and there were alternatives provided.

“If you don’t have Aadhaar, you just need to enrol and show your enrolment slip. Again, if beneficiaries are not able to enrol by June 30, they just need to register their request for enrolment... Just register your mobile number. Besides, States are obligated to set up enrolment centres,” Mr. Rohatgi submitted.

But advocate Shyam Divan, appearing for Magsaysay award winner and former National Commission for Protection of Child Rights chairperson Shanta Sinha and feminist researcher Kalyani Sen Menon said the language of the notifications is quite clear. Citizens are forced to either posses an Aadhaar card or show proof — an enrolment slip — to access services and entitlements after June 30.

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The Hindu, 19 May, 2017, http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/june-30-not-a-deadline-to-get-aadhaar-govt-tells-sc/article18510863.ece?homepage=true


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