SC refers Aadhar card issue

New Delhi, July 18: The Supreme Court will hear the matter on Tuesday from cases filed against Aadhaar and others.

A five-judge Constitution bench of the Supreme Court on Monday referred the Aadhaar matter to a larger bench to decide whether linking of the pan card with the 12-digit biometric identification number would breach privacy.

These laws were filed against the privacy and privacy of the individual privacy rights. Some have challenged the central government to make Aadhaar for various public welfare schemes.

Attorney General KK Venugopal and senior advocate Shyam Diwans have recently heard arguments in the court.

The Supreme Court had on September 12 agreed to form a vast constitutional bench to deal with Aadhaar matters in the appeal filed before the Chief Justice.

The Constitution bench constituted by the Court will investigate all aspects of Aadhaar.

The Centre has maintained that right to privacy is not a fundamental right. In 2015, then attorney general Mukul Rohatgi, citing previous judgments, informed the Supreme Court that citizens are not guaranteed the right to privacy under the Indian Constitution. The counsel for one of the 22 petitioners in the Aadhaar case has, however, compared the situation to one under a “totalitarian” state where people were being forcefully tagged and tracked by the Centre.