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Aadhaar Deadline for Social Welfare Schemes Pushed to 31 December

The deadline was postponed as the SC scheduled the hearing of the Aadhaar case for November.

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The Supreme Court, on 30 August, said it would hear a batch of petitions on Aadhaar-related matters in November, after the Centre announced that it would extend till 31 December the deadline to furnish Aadhaar to avail benefits of social welfare schemes.

A bench, headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, said there was no urgency to hear the matter after Attorney General KK Venugopal told the bench that the Centre will extend the 30 September deadline.

Senior advocate Shyam Divan, representing various petitioners, mentioned the matter before the bench, also comprising Justices Amitava Roy and AM Khanwilkar and sought early hearing on the batch of petitions which have also challenged the Centre's move to make Aadhaar mandatory for availing benefits of of various social welfare schemes.

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When Divan referred to the deadline of 30 September, Venugopal said, “We (Centre) will extend it to 31 December”.

The bench thereafter said that the batch of petitions on the Aadhaar issue would be taken up for hearing in the first week of November.

“The urgency is not there. The Attorney General is saying that the deadline will be extended. It (petitions) will be listed in the first week of November,” the bench said.

Divan referred to the privacy judgement penned by Justice RF Nariman’s separate but concurring verdict and contended that the judge had said that matters relating to Aadhaar be sent back for adjudication on merits by a bench of three judges.

However, the Attorney General requested the bench that these matters be sent for adjudication by a five-judge bench, considering the importance of the issues involved in it.

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A three-judge bench had, on 7 July, said that all issues arising out of Aadhaar should finally be decided by a larger bench. Later on 12 July, the apex court said that its five-judge Constitution Bench will hear matters relating to Aadhaar, including the aspect of right to privacy.

A nine-judge Constitution bench of the apex court had on 24 August, declared the Right to privacy as a Fundamental right, saying it is protected as an intrinsic part of the right to life and personal liberty under Article 21 and as a part of the freedoms guaranteed by Part III of the Constitution.

The apex court was hearing three separate petitions challenging government's notification making Aadhaar mandatory for availing benefits of various social welfare schemes.

(With inputs from PTI)

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