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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Kapil Sibal to SC: Aadhaar shouldn't be the sole identity criterion for claiming benefits -Priyanka Mittal

Kapil Sibal to SC: Aadhaar shouldn't be the sole identity criterion for claiming benefits -Priyanka Mittal

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published Published on Feb 14, 2018   modified Modified on Feb 14, 2018
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Lawyer Kapil Sibal says making Aadhaar mandatory for government schemes would be a constitutional violation in restricting the choice of identity to one

New Delhi:
Denial of entitlements in case a citizen does not have Aadhaar or refuses to get one leads to abrogation of his fundamental rights, lawyer Kapil Sibal said on Tuesday.

The submission was made before a Constitution bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and justices D.Y. Chandrachud, A.K. Sikri, A.M. Khanwilkar and Ashok Bhushan.

Sibal pressed the fact that Aadhaar should not be the sole identity criterion for claiming benefits, and that it would be a constitutional violation in restricting the choice of identity to one.

“Aadhaar does not establish my status. And (if) I can prove my identity for the purpose of that entitlement by any method, I am entitled to the benefits,” he said.

Justice Chandrachud at this point said that if entitlement depended on who you were, then couldn’t the government require proof on that count? Was that not a reasonable condition?

He further pointed out that Sibal’s argument would suppose that every person would hold at least one form of identity.

Sibal clarified that the point of Aadhaar was not to grant identity to those who don’t have it, but to authenticate identity.

“What you want to say is that you can’t be asked to barter or surrender one fundamental right in order to have access to another”, Dipak Misra observed as he summarised the basis of Sibal’s arguments. Sibal agreed.

Sibal concluded his arguments by putting forth the significance of this case, “This is the most important case since Independence. When this court decided the ADM Jabalpur case, it was in the context of the Emergency. It was limited to a period of time but the issues we are talking about will extend. It is going to decide the future of India,” he told the court.

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