NEW DELHI: The deadline for obligatory linking of Aadhaar to avail various products and services and welfare schemes run through the government could also be additional prolonged beyond March 31, the Centre indicated in the Supreme Court on Tuesday.
The Centre mentioned that since some extra time could be needed to conclude the prolonged listening to in the Aadhaar case, the government may lengthen the deadline from March 31.
A five-judge Constitution bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A K Sikri, A M Khanwilkar, D Y Chandrachud and Ashok Bhushan agreed with the competition of Attorney General K K Venugopal.
"We have extended the deadline in the past and we will extend the deadline again but we may do it by the end of month to enable the petitioners in the case conclude the arguments," Venugopal mentioned.
The bench mentioned, "It is a very valid point raised by the Attorney General and the court would not allow repetitive arguments made by the petitioners' counsel in the matter."
On December 15 final yr, the apex court had prolonged till March 31 the deadline for obligatory linking of Aadhaar with various products and services and welfare schemes.
Earlier senior recommend Shyam Divan, who had led the arguments difficult Aadhaar and its enabling Act, mentioned that the deadline of March 31 be prolonged as it used to be highly not likely that the listening to in the case difficult the constitutional validity of the Aadhaar Act will likely be concluded.
"The deadline for mandatory linking of Aadhaar with various services and welfare schemes is March 31. This will have all India ramification as various institutions would have to adjust themselves accordingly," Divan mentioned.
Justice Chandrachud mentioned even if the court reserved its verdict on March 20, the banks and different establishment would have best 10 days left, which might be tricky.
The bench then known as the Attorney General for help in the problem.
At the fag end of today's listening to, Venugopal appeared ahead of the bench and made the statement about the opportunity of extension of the deadline.
Senior recommend Arvind Datar, who argued towards the Aadhaar scheme, mentioned it violated the basic rights of voters.
The listening to would continue on Wednesday.
Earlier on February 22, former Karnataka top court decide Justice K S Puttaswamy had told the apex court that several deaths had reportedly taken position because of starvation as a result of glitches in the Aadhaar-based public distribution device and the court will have to believe granting them reimbursement.
He had steered the bench to believe granting reimbursement to people who had suffered at the flooring of exclusion because of Aadhaar, specifically the kinfolk of the starvation dying victims.
Earlier, the highest court had noticed that the alleged defect of voters' biometric details underneath the Aadhaar scheme being accumulated with none regulation could be cured through due to this fact bringing a statute.
It had mentioned that the Centre got here out with the regulation in 2016 to negate the objection that it used to be collecting information since 2009 with none authorization, but the problem which needed consideration used to be what would happen if the information accumulated previous, have been compromised.
The Centre mentioned that since some extra time could be needed to conclude the prolonged listening to in the Aadhaar case, the government may lengthen the deadline from March 31.
A five-judge Constitution bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A K Sikri, A M Khanwilkar, D Y Chandrachud and Ashok Bhushan agreed with the competition of Attorney General K K Venugopal.
"We have extended the deadline in the past and we will extend the deadline again but we may do it by the end of month to enable the petitioners in the case conclude the arguments," Venugopal mentioned.
The bench mentioned, "It is a very valid point raised by the Attorney General and the court would not allow repetitive arguments made by the petitioners' counsel in the matter."
On December 15 final yr, the apex court had prolonged till March 31 the deadline for obligatory linking of Aadhaar with various products and services and welfare schemes.
Earlier senior recommend Shyam Divan, who had led the arguments difficult Aadhaar and its enabling Act, mentioned that the deadline of March 31 be prolonged as it used to be highly not likely that the listening to in the case difficult the constitutional validity of the Aadhaar Act will likely be concluded.
"The deadline for mandatory linking of Aadhaar with various services and welfare schemes is March 31. This will have all India ramification as various institutions would have to adjust themselves accordingly," Divan mentioned.
Justice Chandrachud mentioned even if the court reserved its verdict on March 20, the banks and different establishment would have best 10 days left, which might be tricky.
The bench then known as the Attorney General for help in the problem.
At the fag end of today's listening to, Venugopal appeared ahead of the bench and made the statement about the opportunity of extension of the deadline.
Senior recommend Arvind Datar, who argued towards the Aadhaar scheme, mentioned it violated the basic rights of voters.
The listening to would continue on Wednesday.
Earlier on February 22, former Karnataka top court decide Justice K S Puttaswamy had told the apex court that several deaths had reportedly taken position because of starvation as a result of glitches in the Aadhaar-based public distribution device and the court will have to believe granting them reimbursement.
He had steered the bench to believe granting reimbursement to people who had suffered at the flooring of exclusion because of Aadhaar, specifically the kinfolk of the starvation dying victims.
Earlier, the highest court had noticed that the alleged defect of voters' biometric details underneath the Aadhaar scheme being accumulated with none regulation could be cured through due to this fact bringing a statute.
It had mentioned that the Centre got here out with the regulation in 2016 to negate the objection that it used to be collecting information since 2009 with none authorization, but the problem which needed consideration used to be what would happen if the information accumulated previous, have been compromised.
March 31 deadline for Aadhaar linkage may be extended: Govt to Supreme Court
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