Saturday, October 20, 2018

13911 - Here's what Prashant Bhushan and Usha Ramanathan have to say on #AadhaarVerdict - News Laundry


It's been an eventful day, we catch up with two people important to the fight against Aadhaar Act.


By Amit Bhardwaj | Sep 26, 2018 0 Comments


The Supreme Court today upheld the constitutional validity of the Aadhaar Act. The Bench comprising Chief Justice of India Deepak Misra and Justices AK Sikri, AM Khanwilkar, DY Chandrachud and Ashok Bhushan had reserved the verdict on the matter in May after a marathon 38-day-long hearing on a bunch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the law.

Today, all judges except Justice Chandrachud gave a concurring judgement.
We caught up with one of the petitioners in the case and Supreme Court (SC) lawyer Prashant Bhushan who told us that the judgement is in favour of the common masses.

Speaking to Newslaundry, he said, "In this judgement, they have struck down the provisions of the Aadhaar Act which allowed the government to permit private companies to make Aadhaar mandatory." He further added that the judgement says no one can be “denied their entitlement in any government schemes just because the biometric identification fails.”