Advocates Appeared:
For the Impleaders :- Sushil Kumar Singh, Applicant-In-Person, Amit Sharma, Advocates.
For the Petitioners:- Anish Kumar Gupta, Advs.
For the Respondents:- Anip Sachthey, Anil Katiyar, Ashok Mathur, Harish Pandey, Garvesh Kabra, Aniruddha P. Mayee, (M/s Corporate Law Group), Hemantika Wahi, D.S. Mahra, Anitha Shenoy, Dr. (Mrs.) Vipin Gupta, M. Shoeb Alam, Chanchal Kumar Ganguli, Intervenor-In-Person, Amit Sharma, Applicant-In-Person, Varinder Kumar Sharma, (Arputham Aruna And Co), Savita Singh, Jayant Mohan, Sanjay Kapur, Nishant Ramakantrao Katneshwarkar, Ranjan Mukherjee, Guntur Prabhakar, T.G. Narayanan Nair, V. G. Pragasam, Jagjit Singh Chhabra. Jatinder Kumar Bhatia, Abhinav Mukerji, Mishra Saurabh, Manish Vashishtha, Sanjay Kumar Visen, Ruchi Kohli, Manoj K. Mishra, Gopal Singh, Tapesh Kumar Singh, Advs.

No direct arguments in support of Aadhaar ID are made in this judgment, as the Court explicitly declines to decide the constitutional validity of the Aadhaar scheme and remands the matter for adjudication on merits by the original Bench. (!) (!)

However, certain observations recognize legitimate State interests that align with Aadhaar's objectives, such as efficient delivery of welfare benefits and prevention of resource diversion:

• In a social welfare state, the government has a vital interest in ensuring scarce public resources reach legitimate beneficiaries without dissipation, justifying collection of authentic data through data mining. (!)

• State intervention for data collection is permissible if (i) supported by valid law, (ii) necessary for legitimate aims like protecting national security or public welfare, and (iii) proportionate, with data not used for extraneous purposes. (!) (!)

• Public interest in preventing leakage of subsidies and benefits supports data regimes, balanced against individual privacy. (!)

• Commendation to the Union Government to establish a robust data protection regime, noting a committee (chaired by Justice B.N. Srikrishna) for this purpose, implies recognition of need for structured data handling in schemes like Aadhaar. (!) (!) (!)