Aadhaar case: SC judge recounts ailing mother's pension hurdles; top points
A five-judge Constitution Bench, headed
by CJI Dipak Misra, is hearing a batch of petitions challenging the
constitutional validity of the Aadhaar scheme and its enabling law
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News: Facing problems with Aadhaar
authentication? You're not alone, even a Supreme Court judge has such an
experience to share, which he did while hearing petitions challenging the
Aadhaar scheme's constitutional validity. Supreme Court judge Justice D Y
Chandrachud on Wednesday recalled a personal experience -- his mother, who was
suffering from Alzheimer's disease, had faced difficulty in authentication to
get her pension.
Justice
Chandrachud is part of the five-judge Constitution Bench, headed by Chief
Justice of India Dipak Misra, which is hearing a batch of petitions challenging
the constitutional validity of the Aadhaar scheme and its enabling law of 2016.
The
hearing will continue on Thursday.
On May 3, the Centre had strongly defended its
decision to seed Aadhaar numbers with mobile phones, telling the top court that
it could have been hauled up for contempt if the verification of mobile users
was not undertaken by it. However, the court had said that the government had
misinterpreted its order and used it as a "tool" to make Aadhaar
mandatory for mobile users.
The
petitioners had referred to the technical experts' views on the technical
aspect of the Aadhaar architecture and said that real-time surveillance of
citizens was possible.
Earlier,
the court also did not agree with the government's contention that the Aadhaar
law was correctly termed as a Money Bill by the Lok Sabha Speaker as it dealt with
"targeted delivery of subsidies" for which funds come from the
Consolidated Fund of India.
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