{"id":303266,"date":"2018-09-26T07:23:20","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T07:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=303266"},"modified":"2018-09-26T07:32:36","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T07:32:36","slug":"supreme-court-aadhaar-not-mandatory-for-school-admissions-bank-accounts-mobile-linking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/supreme-court-aadhaar-not-mandatory-for-school-admissions-bank-accounts-mobile-linking\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court: Aadhaar not mandatory for School admissions, bank accounts, mobile linking"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the constitutionality of Aadhaar and said that Aadhaar gives dignity to marginalised sections, which outweighs the harm. The court in its verdict also said that it was not mandatory to link Aadhaar to bank accounts and mobile linking, but maintained that it was mandatory to link it with PAN for filing income tax returns.<\/span><\/p>\n

A five-judge bench comprising CJI Misra, Justices A K Sikri, A M Khanwilkar, D Y Chandrachud and Ashok Bhushan gave its verdict on petitions that challenged the constitutional validity of Aadhaar, which called it a violation of the right to privacy.<\/span><\/p>\n

The court in its verdict said, \u201cThere is a fundamental difference between Aadhaar card and identity. Once the biometric information is stored, it remains in the system.\u201d Minimal demographic and biometric data is collected from Aadhaar which gives identity and benefits to marginalised people of the community, the apex court added.<\/span><\/p>\n

Justice Sikri while delivering the verdict, said \u201cThe Aadhaar authentication process is not exposed to the internet world. Regulations are strictly followed. There is a sufficient defence mechanism. There is an oversight by technology, no information on the nature of the transaction is obtained.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

While Justice Chandrachud said, \u201cIf Aadhaar is made mandatory for every service the Government of India provides, it is impossible to live in India,\u00a0Legitimate aims can be met with less intrusive measures\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n

Key Points of the verdict:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Court says schools cannot make Aadhaar compulsory. Every child has the right to education.<\/span><\/p>\n

Aadhaar is not needed for banking.<\/span><\/p>\n

Linking of Aadhaar to mobile numbers not constitutional, No mobile company can demand Aadhaar card.<\/span><\/p>\n

Aadhaar is not mandatory for UGC, NEET & CBSE examinations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Private firms can\u2019t access Aadhaar data.<\/span><\/p>\n

Aadhaar \u00a0must for PAN card and for the filing of income tax returns.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the constitutionality of Aadhaar and said that Aadhaar gives dignity to marginalised sections, which outweighs the harm. The court in its verdict also said that it was not mandatory to link Aadhaar to bank accounts and mobile linking, but maintained that it was mandatory to link it with PAN for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":303268,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[175,134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303266"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303266"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303270,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303266\/revisions\/303270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/303268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}