{"id":54138,"date":"2018-09-26T12:31:15","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T07:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=54138"},"modified":"2018-09-26T12:31:24","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T07:01:24","slug":"aadhaar-is-constitutionally-valid-declares-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/aadhaar-is-constitutionally-valid-declares-supreme-court","title":{"rendered":"Aadhaar is Constitutionally valid, Declares Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" data-attachment-id=\"54139\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/aadhaar-is-constitutionally-valid-declares-supreme-court\/aaddd-23-1533321180-1537882725\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/09\/aaddd-23-1533321180-1537882725.jpg?fit=715%2C476&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"715,476\" 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;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"aaddd-23-1533321180-1537882725\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/09\/aaddd-23-1533321180-1537882725.jpg?fit=640%2C426&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/09\/aaddd-23-1533321180-1537882725.jpg?resize=640%2C426&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/09\/aaddd-23-1533321180-1537882725.jpg?w=715&amp;ssl=1 715w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/09\/aaddd-23-1533321180-1537882725.jpg?resize=150%2C100&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/09\/aaddd-23-1533321180-1537882725.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>NEW DELHI:\u00a0Pronouncing its verdict on a batch of pleas challenging the constitutional validity of Aadhaar scheme and its enabling 2016 law,\u00a0\u00a0the Supreme Court on Wednesday declared the Centre&#8217;s flagship Aadhaar scheme as Constitutionally valid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reading out the first of the three judgements, Justice A K Sikri said that there is sufficient defence mechanism for authentication in Aadhaar scheme.\u00a0The top court said minimal demographic and biometric data of citizens are collected by UIDAI for Aadhaar enrolment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The five-judge constitution bench, headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, also had Justices\u00a0 AM Khanwilkar, DY Chandrachud and Ashok Bhushan and\u00a0Justice A K Sikri .\u00a0\u00a0Justice Sikri pronounced the judgement for himself, Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice A M Khanwilkar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is no possibility of obtaining a duplicate Aadhaar card said the apex court.\u00a0SC says nothing in Aadhaar Act that violates right to privacy of individual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI:\u00a0Pronouncing its verdict on a batch of pleas challenging the constitutional validity of Aadhaar scheme and its enabling 2016 law,\u00a0\u00a0the Supreme Court on Wednesday declared the Centre&#8217;s flagship Aadhaar scheme as Constitutionally valid. 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