-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Bombarding the Supreme Court with statistics to convince it about ease of doing day-to-day activities with aadhaar, the Centre said 118.64 crore Indians, which is 88% of the population, had obtained aadhaar and they used it 1,216.8 crore times for authentication purposes. "As of today, the total number of aadhaar-based authentication is 12,168,022,172. Therefore, the Indian population has used aadhaar-based authentication over 1,216 crore times to...
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A welfare test for aadhaar -Subhashis Banerjee
-The Indian Express Exclusion and denial of benefits to the poor needs urgent attention The news last month of the starvation death of an 11-year-old girl in the Simdega district in Jharkhand, allegedly because of denial of PDS ration due to aadhaar linking problems, is appalling. The aadhaar ecosystem definitely needs to pass a stringent welfare test much more crucially than the privacy test. aadhaar undeniably has potential, and can perhaps even be...
More »Supreme Court refuses interim stay on linking aadhaar to bank a/c, mobile nos; leaves it for Constitution bench to decide -Amit Anand Choudhary
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court (SC) on Friday refused to pass an interim order staying the linking of aadhaar with mobile numbers and bank accounts, saying that it is leaving the issue to be decided on by a Constitution bench in the last week of November. At the same time though, the top court chastised banks and mobile telephone companies for creating panic by sending customers messages saying...
More »Five-judge statute Bench to decide on aadhaar validity -Krishnadas Rajagopal
-The Hindu SC issues notice to Centre on plea challenging mandatory linkage with mobiles The Supreme Court on Monday decided to constitute a five-judge Constitution Bench to hear petitions from November against the validity of the aadhaar scheme. A Bench led by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra took the step after Attorney General K.K. Venugopal said falsehoods had been spread about aadhaar linking. A separate Bench of Justices A.K. Sikri and Ashok Bhushan,...
More »SC to set up Constitution bench to hear pleas against aadhaar
-PTI A constitution bench would be set up to hear a clutch of petitions challenging the Centre's decision to make aadhaar mandatory for availing various services and government welfare schemes, the Supreme Court today said. A bench, comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud, said the larger bench would commence hearing on these petitions in the last week of November this year. Earlier today, the apex...
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