Financial institutions and regulators want to link certain services to Aadhaar card.
Written by Utkarsh Anand | New Delhi | Updated: October 7, 2015 5:09 pm
Restricting use of Aadhaar card only to public distribution system and LPG subsidy, the Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to modify its order so as to allow it to be used also for banking and other purposes.
A bench led by Justice J Chelameswar referred a batch of applications moved by financial institutions and regulators such as RBI, SEBI, IRDA etc to the Constitution Bench, which is yet to be set up for hearing the larger points of law.
It was in August when the two-judge bench had prohibited use of Aadhaar only to PDS and LPG services while referring the constitutional question regarding the right to privacy to a larger bench.
The financial institutions and regulators, however, moved the court saying they would also want to link certain services to Aadhaar and that they cannot wait till the Constitution Bench is set up and hear the matter in detail.
But the two-judge bench today noted that once they have already referred the matter to a larger bench, it would not be appropriate to issue further directives in this case.
The government and its wings will mention the case before the Chief Justice of India tomorrow for constitution of the larger bench.