{"id":30942,"date":"2013-11-26T21:51:54","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T16:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=30942"},"modified":"2013-11-26T21:51:54","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T16:21:54","slug":"pil-aadhaar-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/pil-aadhaar-scheme","title":{"rendered":"PIL against Aadhaar scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>SaveDelete<\/p>\n<p>Tech News, Cool Software, Design &amp; Internet Tips<\/p>\n<p>Home<\/p>\n<p>Design<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Internet Tips<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Software<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ENTERTAINMENT<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Aadhaar.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"30943\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/pil-aadhaar-scheme\/aadhaar\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/11\/Aadhaar.jpg?fit=261%2C193&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"261,193\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Aadhaar\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/11\/Aadhaar.jpg?fit=150%2C110&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/11\/Aadhaar.jpg?fit=261%2C193&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-30943\" alt=\"Aadhaar\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Aadhaar.jpg?resize=261%2C193&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"261\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/11\/Aadhaar.jpg?w=261&amp;ssl=1 261w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/11\/Aadhaar.jpg?resize=150%2C110&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px\" \/><\/a>The Supreme Court Tuesday issued notice to all the states on a PIL contending that the entire Aadhaar scheme was unconstitutional as the biometric data collected under it was an incursion and transgression of individual privacy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Notice was issued after court was told that a large number of States have linked the entitlement of socially and economically beneficial schemes with the Aadhaar scheme.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Referring to the provisions in various State, senior counsel Shyam Divan told the court that possessing a Aadhaar card has become necessary for the registration of marriages under Hindu Marriage Act, Special Marriage Act, solemnization of marriages, admission to schools, drawing salaries, and for securing essential services, cooking gas, rural jobs scheme, food subsidy and other welfare schemes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Though there is no statutory backing for the Aadhaar scheme, but even if there was one even then storing the digitalized biometric data of the finger prints, facial photograph and that of iris on a server could not be done, he told a bench of Justice B.S. Chauhan and Justice S.A.Bobde.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Divan, who had appeared for the main petitioner Justice (Retd.) K.S. Puttaswamy, said that even if the Aadhaar scheme was voluntary even then the government could not keep such personal data of the citizens as it violated Article 14 and 21 of the Constitution and would remain a coercive instrument in the hands of the government.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Asking the senior counsel to make his submissions taking into account \u201charsh ground realities\u201d, Justice Chauhan said, \u201cEven in India we have 30 percent slaves.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople don\u2019t have potable water. For them food and water is more important than right to privacy. We are giving rice to people for Rs.1 per kg. Even today 60 percent of girls are married below the age of 18 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is the percentage and whose rights are being argued (for the violation of privacy)?\u201d Justice Chauhan asked Divan telling him that the impact of Aadhar card on the invasion of privacy of citizens was \u201cvariable\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It may be an issue with white collar people but certainly not who are struggling for food and water, the court said as Divan sought to persuade the court that Aadhaar must be abandoned altogether.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Conceding the point raised by the court, Divan said: \u201cIt might not impact all similarly. To some it might. To some it might not at all and to some in distant future. There will be variable impact.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a harsh reality. They have issue with sustenance. For them this point(of privacy) will not impact\u201d, the court reiterated pointing to harsh reality of a poverty-ridden society.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pointing to the possible commercial use of this digitized biometric data, Divan said that besides being unconstitutional, the entire project was being executed by private enterprises with no statutory rules and guidelines to safeguard the data from being misused.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; SaveDelete Tech News, Cool Software, Design &amp; Internet Tips Home Design &nbsp; Internet Tips &nbsp; News &nbsp; Software &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; ENTERTAINMENT The Supreme Court Tuesday issued notice to all the states on a PIL contending that the entire Aadhaar scheme was unconstitutional as the biometric data collected under it was an incursion and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[2537,4417,27058],"class_list":["post-30942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-law-news","tag-justice-b-s-chauhan","tag-justice-s-a-bobde","tag-pil-against-aadhaar-scheme"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PIL against Aadhaar scheme - Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; High Court Updates<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"PIL against Aadhaar scheme\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/pil-aadhaar-scheme\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PIL against Aadhaar scheme - Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; High Court Updates\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"PIL against Aadhaar scheme\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/pil-aadhaar-scheme\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; High Court Updates\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LegalindiaCom\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-11-26T16:21:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/11\/Aadhaar.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"261\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"193\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Legal India Admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Legal India Admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/pil-aadhaar-scheme#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/pil-aadhaar-scheme\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Legal India Admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/0bfdffe9059fb8bb24a86d094609c5ea\"},\"headline\":\"PIL against Aadhaar scheme\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-11-26T16:21:54+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/pil-aadhaar-scheme\"},\"wordCount\":509,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/pil-aadhaar-scheme#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/2\\\/2013\\\/11\\\/Aadhaar.jpg?fit=261%2C193&ssl=1\",\"keywords\":[\"Justice B.S. 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