Deadline for linking Aadhaar to welfare schemes extended to Dec. 31, Centre tells SC
Attorney General K.K. Venugopal submitted before a Bench led by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dipak Misra about the extension in deadline during an urgent mentioning in the court by petitioners who have challenged the validity of the Aadhaar scheme and the Aadhaar Act of 2016.
The petitioners, represented by senior advocate Shyam Divan, wanted an early hearing since the last date for linking the Aadhaar cards of beneficiaries to these welfare schemes fell on September 30.
On hearing Venugopal's submission that the deadline has been extended, the Bench posted the Aadhaar petitions for hearing to November first week.
The Bench, led by Justie J. Chelameswar, had referred the petitions for hearing before a five-judge Bench, keeping in mind the pertinent legal question - whether privacy is a fundamental right or not - that had to be answered first.
The five-judge Bench had referred the legal question to a nine-judge Bench to nunerically overcome the MP Sharma and Kharak Singh judgments, which had declared that privacy is not a fundamental right.
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