The Aadhaar Act undermined the Rajya Sabha and was passed as a Money Bill. Justice Chandrachud in his judgment in WP 494 of 2012 clearly declares the…
Category: Aadhaar Coercion
Aadhaar is voluntary and mandatory and compulsory at the same time. While technically no one can be forced to get an Aadhaar, the government and the UIDAI have been making necessary services and welfare conditional to enrolling for Aadhaar and linking them with an Aadhaar number, which leaves citizens with few alternatives to getting an Aadhaar made, if they want to hold bank accounts, phones, get rations or LPG subsidies and so on. While this is currently stayed by the Supreme Court and extended for welfare by the government, on the ground, essentials continue to be refused without an Aadhaar.
The government’s doublespeak and constitutional fraud on Aadhaar, the 12-digit “unique” biometrics-linked identification number, continues. First, after passing the Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies,…
Union Minister of State for Home, Hansraj Ahir has said that the Center will look into sharing Aadhaar data with police for identifying first time offenders and…
The NCRB Director, Ish Kumar has requested Hansraj Ahir, Union Minister of State for Home to provide access to Aadhaar data to the police, reports PTI. He…
In what is a clear violation of a Supreme Court order that Aadhaar cannot be made mandatory for bank accounts till the case in the Supreme Court…
ആധാര് കേസില് ഭരണഘടനാബെഞ്ച് രൂപീകരിക്കാതെ നവംബര് മാസവും കടന്നുപോയി. 851 ദിവസങ്ങള് പിന്നിടുന്നു, ഭരണഘടനാബെഞ്ച് രൂപീകരിക്കാന് സുപ്രീംകോടതി തീരുമാനിച്ചിട്ട്. 2 വര്ഷവും 3 മാസവും 21 ദിവസവും. അവസാനമായി ആധാര് കേസില് കോടതി വാദം കേട്ടു എന്ന്…
A document from the UCO bank leaked on Twitter seems to be setting a target of 16 enrolments daily that must be met by the operators. https://twitter.com/akashsharma4941/status/1000449454057672705…
The Lokniti Foundation is a secretive organisation with no website, no presence on social media, and no public list of trustees. Their registered office is a sealed…
(Concern raised in this tweet by data security researcher Srinivas Kodali) In its Regional Conference on Child Marriage held in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, earlier this year, the National…
The Supreme Court’s Constitution Bench grilled the government’s lawyers on Aadhaar’s potential to prevent bank fraud, reports The Economic Times. During the ongoing hearings to determine the…