1. Aadhaar linkage requirements for bank accounts, mobile phone E-KYC, and passport applications under the Passports (1st Amendment) Rules, 2018. (Para 2 , 3 )
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2018 Supreme(SC) 519
SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
DIPAK MISRA, CJI., A.K. SIKRI, A.M. KHANWILKAR, D.Y. CHANDRACHUD, ASHOK BHUSHAN, JJ.
K.S. PUTTASWAMY (RETD) & ANR. - Petitioners
VERSUS
UNION OF INDIA & ORS. - Respondents
Writ Petition (Civil) No. 494 of 2012
Decided on : 13-03-2018
Advocates:
Advocate Appeared:
For the Petitioners:Mr. Arvind Datar, Sr. Adv., Mr. Apar Gupta, Adv., Mr. Deepayan Mandal, AOR, Mr. Rahul Unnikrishnan, Adv., Mr. K.V. Viswanathan, Sr. Adv., Ms. Vrinda Bhandari, Adv., Mr. N. Sai Vinod, Adv., Mr. Shadan Farasat, AOR, Mr. P. Chidambaram, Sr. Adv., Mr. Muhammad Ali Khan, Adv., Mr. Vikramaditya Singh, Adv., Mr. R.V. Prabhat, Adv., Mr. Omar Hoda, Adv., Mr. Gaurav Gupta, Adv., Mr. Abhishek Jebraj, Adv., Mr. Jaspal Singh, Adv., Mr. Rajesh Inamdar, Adv., Mr. Gautam Talukdar, AOR, Ms. Prianka Rao Khan, Adv., Mr. Namrah Nasir, Adv., Mr. K.V. Viswanathan, Sr. Adv., Ms. Vrinda Bhandari, Adv., Mr. Gautam Bhatia, Adv., Mr. N. Sai Vinod, Adv., Mr. T.V.S. Raghavendra Sreyas, AOR, Ms. Aishwarya Bhati, AOR, Mr. Jaideep Singh, Adv., Mr. Anirben Sen, Adv., Mr. Gopal Thiruman, Adv., Mr. Pavan Bhushan, Adv., Mr. Jayavardhan Singh, Adv., Ms. Vaidruti Mishra, Adv., Mr. Shyam Divan, Sr. Adv., Mr. Abhishek Atrey, AOR, Mr. Ravinder Lokhande, Adv., Mr. Arvind Datar, Sr. Adv., Dr. Anindita Pujari, Adv., Mr. Prasanna S., Adv., Mr. Kavita Bhardwaj, Adv., Ms. Ratna Apprender, Adv., Mr. Sautik Banerjee, Adv., Mr. Amit Mohan Meharia, Adv., Mrs. Tannishtha Singh, Adv., Ms. Aishwarya Kumar, Adv., for M/s. Meharia & Company, AOR, Mrs. Geetha Kovilan, AOR, Mr. P.R. Kovilan, Adv., Ms. Aswathi M.K., Adv., Mr. Shyam Divan, Sr. Adv., Mr. Vipin Nair, AOR, Mr. P.B. Suresh, Adv., Mr. Udayadita Banerjee, Adv., Mr. S. Prasanna, Adv., Ms. Samiksha Godiyal, Adv., Mr. Abhay Pratap Singh, Adv., Mr. V.K. Biju, Adv., Mr. Prithu Garg, Adv., Mr. Govind Manoharan, Adv., Ms. Meenakshi Arora, Sr. Adv., Mr. Rahul Narayan, AOR, Mr. Apar Gupta, Adv., Mr. Shashwat Goel, Adv., Ms. Garima Jain, Adv., Mr. Anish Kumar Gupta, AOR, Mr. Avdhesh Kumar Gupta, Adv., Mr. Rajendra Kumar Singh, Adv., Mr. R.K. Rajwanshi, Adv., Mr. Chandra Shekhar Suman, Adv., Mrs. Rita Gupta, Adv., Ms. Deepshikha Bharati, Adv., Ms. Harsha, Adv., M/s. K.J. John And Co, AOR, Mr. Prashant Bhushan, AOR, Ms. Jyoti Mendiratta, AOR, Ms. Archana Pathak Dave, AOR, Mr. Pranaya Kumar Mohapatra, AOR, Mrs. Pragya Baghel, AOR, Mr. Anando Mukherjee, AOR, Mr. Chanchal Kumar Ganguli, AOR, Petitioner-in-person
For the Respondents: Mr. K.K. Venugopal, ASG Mr. Harish V. Shankar, Adv., Mr. S.S. Shamshery, Adv., Ms. Rukmini S. Bobde, Adv., Ms. Shraddha Deshmukh, Adv., Mr. Kumar Shashank, Adv., Mr. S.S. Rebello, Adv., Ms. Nivedita Nair, Adv., Ms. Sneha Prabhu Tendulkar, Adv., Mr. Rajat Nair, Adv., Mr. R. Balasubramanian, Adv., Mr. Zoheb Hossain, Adv., Mr. Raj Bahadur, Adv., Mr. Ankur Talwar, Adv., Ms. Adeeba Mujahid, Adv., Mr. Rajendra Dangwal, Adv., Mr. Piyush Goyal, Adv., Mr. Palash Maheshwari, Adv., Mr. Fahad Khan, Adv., Ms. Bhavita Kumar, Adv., Mr. Kanu Aggarwal, Adv., Mr. M.K. Maroria, Adv., Mr. Arvind Datar, Sr. Adv., Mr. Nipun Saxena, Adv., Ms. Namit Saxena, Adv., Mr. Devanshu Sajlan, Adv., Mr. Aditya P. Arora, Adv., Mr. Digant K. Deo, Adv., Ms./Mr. Pallavi Pratap, AOR, Mr. Rakesh Dwivedi, Sr. Adv., Ms. Hemantika Wahi, AOR, Ms. Shodhika Sharma, Adv., Ms. Sanskriti Pathak, Adv., Mr. Jayant Bhushan, Sr. Adv., Mr. Kuldeep S. Parihar, Adv., Mr. H.S. Parihar, AOR, Mr. J.S. Attri, Sr. Adv., Mr. Varinder Kumar Sharma, AOR, Mr. Nishe Rajen Shonker, Adv., Ms. Annu K. Joy, Adv., Mr. Manav Vohra, Adv., Mr. Krishna Dev J., Adv., Mr. Alim Anvar, Adv., Mr. Mohammed Sadique T.A., Adv., Ms. Svadha Shankar, Adv., Mr. Amith Krishnan, Adv., Mr. Zoheb Hossain, AOR, Ms. Rohini Musa, Adv., Mr. N.R. Katneshwarker, Adv., Mr. G. Prakash, Adv., Mr. Jishnu M.L., Adv., Mrs. Priyanka Prakash, Adv., Mrs. Beena Prakash, Adv., Mr. Vijay Shankar V.L., Adv., Mr. Priyadarshi Banerjee, Adv., Mr. Pratibhanu S. Kharola, Adv., Mr. Saransh Kumar, Adv., Mr. Saransh Jain, Adv., Mr. Madhavam Sharma, Adv., Mr. Meka Venkata Rama Krishna, Adv., Mr. Ashok Mathur, AOR, Mr. R. Sudhinder, Adv., Ms. Amrita Sarkar, Adv., Mr. Raja Chatterjee, Adv., Mr. Adeel Ahmed, Adv., Mr. Soumitra G. Chaudhuri, Adv., Mr. Chanchal Kr. Ganguli, AOR, Mr. Guntur Prabhakar, AOR, Ms. Prerna Singh, Adv., Mr. Karan Bharihoke, Adv., Ms. Radhika Chaturvedi, Adv., Mr. Hitesh Kumar Sharma, Adv., Mr. S.K. Rajora, Adv., Dr. (Mrs.) Vipin Gupta, AOR, Mr. Tapesh Kumar Singh, AOR, Mr. Mohd. Waquas, Adv., Mr. Aditya Pratap Singh, Adv., Mr. Jayesh Gaurav, Adv., Mr. Ratan Kr. Choudhuri, Adv., Mr. Ranjan Mukherjee, AOR, Mr. S. Bhowmick, Adv., Mr. Ranjan Mukherjee, AOR, Mr. Daniel S. Lyngdoh, Adv., Mr. Jatinder Kumar Bhatia, AOR, Mr. Ashutosh Kumar Sharma, Adv., Mr. Edward Belho, AAG, Nagaland Ms. K. Enatoli Sema, Adv., Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, Adv., Mr. K. Luikang Michael, Adv., Mr. Z.H. Isaac Haiding, Adv., Ms. V. Mohana, Sr. Adv., Mr. Y.P. Adhyari, Adv., Ms. Rashmi Malhotra, Adv., Mr. Amit Mohan Meharia, Adv., Mrs. Tannishtha Singh, Adv., Ms. Aishwarya Kumar, Adv., for M/s. Meharia & Company, AOR, Mr. Bhupesh Narula, Adv., Mr. K.V. Jagdishvaran, Adv., Mrs. G. Indira, Adv., Mr. Shuvodeep Roy, Adv., Mr. Sayooj Mohandas, Adv., Mr. M. Shoeb Alam, AOR, Ms. Fauzia Shakil, Adv., Mr. Ujjwal Singh, Adv., Mr. Mojahid Karim Khan, Adv., Mr. V.G. Pragasam, AOR, Mr. S. Prabu Ramasubramanian, Adv., Mr. S. Manuraj, Adv., Mr. Gopal Singh, AOR, Mr. Rituraj Biswas, Adv., Mr. Devadatt Kamat, AAG, Karnataka Mr. Joseph Aristotle S., Adv., Mrs. Priya Aristotle, Adv., Mr. Rajesh Inamdar, Adv., Mr. Ashish Yadav, Adv., Mr. Javedur Rehman, Adv., Mr. Aditya Bhat, Adv., Mr. K.V. Vijayakumar, AOR, Ms. Maitreyee Mishra, Adv., Mr. Sanjay Kapur, AOR, Ms. Mansi Kapur, Adv., Ms. Megha Karnwal, Adv., Ms. Shubhra Kapur, Adv., Mr. K.N. Madhusoodhanan, Adv., Ms. Nitya Madhusoodhanan, Adv., Mr. T.G.N. Nair, Adv., Ms. Aruna Mathur, Adv., Mr. Avneesh Arputham, Adv., Ms. Anuradha Arputham, Adv., Ms. Simran Jeet, Adv., for M/s. Arputham Aruna And Co, AOR, Mr. S. Udaya Kumar Sagar, AOR, Mr. Mrityunjai Singh, Adv., Mr. Anil Grover, AAG, Haryana Mr. Shivam Kumar, Adv., Mr. Sanjay Kumar Visen, AOR, Mr. L.D. Joshi, Adv., Mr. Gopal Sankaranarayanan, Adv., Ms. Savita Singh, AOR, Mr. Shanu Agrawal, Adv., Mr. Shrutanjay Bhardwaj, Adv., Ms. Veera Mahuli, Adv., M/s. Lawyer S Knit & Co, AOR, Mr. Milind Kumar, AOR, Ms. Aishwarya Bhati, AOR, Mr. Dinkar Kalra, AOR, Ms. Rashmi Singhania, AOR, Mr. Mohit D. Ram, AOR, Mr. Jayant Mohan, AOR, Mr. Nishant Ramakantrao Katneshwarkar, AOR, Mr. T.G. Narayanan Nair, AOR, Mr. Jagjit Singh Chhabra, AOR, Mr. Abhinav Mukerji, AOR, Mr. Mishra Saurabh, AOR, Mr. Manish Vashishtha, AOR, Ms. Ruchi Kohli, AOR, M/s. Corporate Law Group, AOR, Mr. Aniruddha P. Mayee, AOR, Mr. Garvesh Kabra, AOR, Mr. Harish Pandey, AOR, Mrs. Anil Katiyar, AOR, Mr. Anip Sachthey, AOR, Ms. Anitha Shenoy, AOR, Intervenor-in-person, AOR, Mr. Amit Sharma, AOR, Applicant-in-person, AOR, Mr. Jogy Scaria, AOR, Mr. Rabin Majumder, AOR, M/s. Khaitan & Co., AOR, Mr. Harsh Kaushik, AOR, Mr. K.R. Sasiprabhu, AOR, Mr. M. P. Vinod, AOR, Mr. Koshy John, Adv., Mr. Md. Nizam Pasha, Adv., Ms. Anusha Nagarajan, Adv., Mr. Adit Pujari, Adv., Mrs. Pragya Baghel, AOR, Ms. Ranjeeta Rohatgi, Adv., Ms. Samten Doma, Adv., Dr. Lalit Bhasin, Adv., Ms. N. Gupta, Adv., Mr. Neeraj Redhu, Adv., Ms. Palak Chadha, Adv., Mr. Mudit Sharma, AOR, Mr. Saikrishna Rajgopal, Adv., Ms. Julien George, Adv., Ms. Arundhati Gopal, Adv., Mr. Arjun Ranganathan, Adv., Ms. Vaneesha Jain, Adv., Mr. Nikhil Nayyar, Adv., Mr. P.V. Surendra Nath, Sr. Adv., Ms. Resmitha R. Chandran, Adv., Ms. Lekha Sudhakaran, Adv., Mr. Syed Jafar Alam, Adv., Ms. Shivani Khandekar, Adv., Mr. S. Mukherjee, Adv., Mr. Manoj K. Mishra, AOR, Mr. Umesh Dubey, Adv., Mr. Sandeep Kumar Dwivedi, Adv., Ms. Aparna Bhat, Adv., Mr. Mayank Sapra, Adv.,
Advocate Appeared:
For the Petitioners:Mr. Arvind Datar, Sr. Adv., Mr. Apar Gupta, Adv., Mr. Deepayan Mandal, AOR, Mr. Rahul Unnikrishnan, Adv., Mr. K.V. Viswanathan, Sr. Adv., Ms. Vrinda Bhandari, Adv., Mr. N. Sai Vinod, Adv., Mr. Shadan Farasat, AOR, Mr. P. Chidambaram, Sr. Adv., Mr. Muhammad Ali Khan, Adv., Mr. Vikramaditya Singh, Adv., Mr. R.V. Prabhat, Adv., Mr. Omar Hoda, Adv., Mr. Gaurav Gupta, Adv., Mr. Abhishek Jebraj, Adv., Mr. Jaspal Singh, Adv., Mr. Rajesh Inamdar, Adv., Mr. Gautam Talukdar, AOR, Ms. Prianka Rao Khan, Adv., Mr. Namrah Nasir, Adv., Mr. K.V. Viswanathan, Sr. Adv., Ms. Vrinda Bhandari, Adv., Mr. Gautam Bhatia, Adv., Mr. N. Sai Vinod, Adv., Mr. T.V.S. Raghavendra Sreyas, AOR, Ms. Aishwarya Bhati, AOR, Mr. Jaideep Singh, Adv., Mr. Anirben Sen, Adv., Mr. Gopal Thiruman, Adv., Mr. Pavan Bhushan, Adv., Mr. Jayavardhan Singh, Adv., Ms. Vaidruti Mishra, Adv., Mr. Shyam Divan, Sr. Adv., Mr. Abhishek Atrey, AOR, Mr. Ravinder Lokhande, Adv., Mr. Arvind Datar, Sr. Adv., Dr. Anindita Pujari, Adv., Mr. Prasanna S., Adv., Mr. Kavita Bhardwaj, Adv., Ms. Ratna Apprender, Adv., Mr. Sautik Banerjee, Adv., Mr. Amit Mohan Meharia, Adv., Mrs. Tannishtha Singh, Adv., Ms. Aishwarya Kumar, Adv., for M/s. Meharia & Company, AOR, Mrs. Geetha Kovilan, AOR, Mr. P.R. Kovilan, Adv., Ms. Aswathi M.K., Adv., Mr. Shyam Divan, Sr. Adv., Mr. Vipin Nair, AOR, Mr. P.B. Suresh, Adv., Mr. Udayadita Banerjee, Adv., Mr. S. Prasanna, Adv., Ms. Samiksha Godiyal, Adv., Mr. Abhay Pratap Singh, Adv., Mr. V.K. Biju, Adv., Mr. Prithu Garg, Adv., Mr. Govind Manoharan, Adv., Ms. Meenakshi Arora, Sr. Adv., Mr. Rahul Narayan, AOR, Mr. Apar Gupta, Adv., Mr. Shashwat Goel, Adv., Ms. Garima Jain, Adv., Mr. Anish Kumar Gupta, AOR, Mr. Avdhesh Kumar Gupta, Adv., Mr. Rajendra Kumar Singh, Adv., Mr. R.K. Rajwanshi, Adv., Mr. Chandra Shekhar Suman, Adv., Mrs. Rita Gupta, Adv., Ms. Deepshikha Bharati, Adv., Ms. Harsha, Adv., M/s. K.J. John And Co, AOR, Mr. Prashant Bhushan, AOR, Ms. Jyoti Mendiratta, AOR, Ms. Archana Pathak Dave, AOR, Mr. Pranaya Kumar Mohapatra, AOR, Mrs. Pragya Baghel, AOR, Mr. Anando Mukherjee, AOR, Mr. Chanchal Kumar Ganguli, AOR, Petitioner-in-person
For the Respondents: Mr. K.K. Venugopal, ASG Mr. Harish V. Shankar, Adv., Mr. S.S. Shamshery, Adv., Ms. Rukmini S. Bobde, Adv., Ms. Shraddha Deshmukh, Adv., Mr. Kumar Shashank, Adv., Mr. S.S. Rebello, Adv., Ms. Nivedita Nair, Adv., Ms. Sneha Prabhu Tendulkar, Adv., Mr. Rajat Nair, Adv., Mr. R. Balasubramanian, Adv., Mr. Zoheb Hossain, Adv., Mr. Raj Bahadur, Adv., Mr. Ankur Talwar, Adv., Ms. Adeeba Mujahid, Adv., Mr. Rajendra Dangwal, Adv., Mr. Piyush Goyal, Adv., Mr. Palash Maheshwari, Adv., Mr. Fahad Khan, Adv., Ms. Bhavita Kumar, Adv., Mr. Kanu Aggarwal, Adv., Mr. M.K. Maroria, Adv., Mr. Arvind Datar, Sr. Adv., Mr. Nipun Saxena, Adv., Ms. Namit Saxena, Adv., Mr. Devanshu Sajlan, Adv., Mr. Aditya P. Arora, Adv., Mr. Digant K. Deo, Adv., Ms./Mr. Pallavi Pratap, AOR, Mr. Rakesh Dwivedi, Sr. Adv., Ms. Hemantika Wahi, AOR, Ms. Shodhika Sharma, Adv., Ms. Sanskriti Pathak, Adv., Mr. Jayant Bhushan, Sr. Adv., Mr. Kuldeep S. Parihar, Adv., Mr. H.S. Parihar, AOR, Mr. J.S. Attri, Sr. Adv., Mr. Varinder Kumar Sharma, AOR, Mr. Nishe Rajen Shonker, Adv., Ms. Annu K. Joy, Adv., Mr. Manav Vohra, Adv., Mr. Krishna Dev J., Adv., Mr. Alim Anvar, Adv., Mr. Mohammed Sadique T.A., Adv., Ms. Svadha Shankar, Adv., Mr. Amith Krishnan, Adv., Mr. Zoheb Hossain, AOR, Ms. Rohini Musa, Adv., Mr. N.R. Katneshwarker, Adv., Mr. G. Prakash, Adv., Mr. Jishnu M.L., Adv., Mrs. Priyanka Prakash, Adv., Mrs. Beena Prakash, Adv., Mr. Vijay Shankar V.L., Adv., Mr. Priyadarshi Banerjee, Adv., Mr. Pratibhanu S. Kharola, Adv., Mr. Saransh Kumar, Adv., Mr. Saransh Jain, Adv., Mr. Madhavam Sharma, Adv., Mr. Meka Venkata Rama Krishna, Adv., Mr. Ashok Mathur, AOR, Mr. R. Sudhinder, Adv., Ms. Amrita Sarkar, Adv., Mr. Raja Chatterjee, Adv., Mr. Adeel Ahmed, Adv., Mr. Soumitra G. Chaudhuri, Adv., Mr. Chanchal Kr. Ganguli, AOR, Mr. Guntur Prabhakar, AOR, Ms. Prerna Singh, Adv., Mr. Karan Bharihoke, Adv., Ms. Radhika Chaturvedi, Adv., Mr. Hitesh Kumar Sharma, Adv., Mr. S.K. Rajora, Adv., Dr. (Mrs.) Vipin Gupta, AOR, Mr. Tapesh Kumar Singh, AOR, Mr. Mohd. Waquas, Adv., Mr. Aditya Pratap Singh, Adv., Mr. Jayesh Gaurav, Adv., Mr. Ratan Kr. Choudhuri, Adv., Mr. Ranjan Mukherjee, AOR, Mr. S. Bhowmick, Adv., Mr. Ranjan Mukherjee, AOR, Mr. Daniel S. Lyngdoh, Adv., Mr. Jatinder Kumar Bhatia, AOR, Mr. Ashutosh Kumar Sharma, Adv., Mr. Edward Belho, AAG, Nagaland Ms. K. Enatoli Sema, Adv., Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, Adv., Mr. K. Luikang Michael, Adv., Mr. Z.H. Isaac Haiding, Adv., Ms. V. Mohana, Sr. Adv., Mr. Y.P. Adhyari, Adv., Ms. Rashmi Malhotra, Adv., Mr. Amit Mohan Meharia, Adv., Mrs. Tannishtha Singh, Adv., Ms. Aishwarya Kumar, Adv., for M/s. Meharia & Company, AOR, Mr. Bhupesh Narula, Adv., Mr. K.V. Jagdishvaran, Adv., Mrs. G. Indira, Adv., Mr. Shuvodeep Roy, Adv., Mr. Sayooj Mohandas, Adv., Mr. M. Shoeb Alam, AOR, Ms. Fauzia Shakil, Adv., Mr. Ujjwal Singh, Adv., Mr. Mojahid Karim Khan, Adv., Mr. V.G. Pragasam, AOR, Mr. S. Prabu Ramasubramanian, Adv., Mr. S. Manuraj, Adv., Mr. Gopal Singh, AOR, Mr. Rituraj Biswas, Adv., Mr. Devadatt Kamat, AAG, Karnataka Mr. Joseph Aristotle S., Adv., Mrs. Priya Aristotle, Adv., Mr. Rajesh Inamdar, Adv., Mr. Ashish Yadav, Adv., Mr. Javedur Rehman, Adv., Mr. Aditya Bhat, Adv., Mr. K.V. Vijayakumar, AOR, Ms. Maitreyee Mishra, Adv., Mr. Sanjay Kapur, AOR, Ms. Mansi Kapur, Adv., Ms. Megha Karnwal, Adv., Ms. Shubhra Kapur, Adv., Mr. K.N. Madhusoodhanan, Adv., Ms. Nitya Madhusoodhanan, Adv., Mr. T.G.N. Nair, Adv., Ms. Aruna Mathur, Adv., Mr. Avneesh Arputham, Adv., Ms. Anuradha Arputham, Adv., Ms. Simran Jeet, Adv., for M/s. Arputham Aruna And Co, AOR, Mr. S. Udaya Kumar Sagar, AOR, Mr. Mrityunjai Singh, Adv., Mr. Anil Grover, AAG, Haryana Mr. Shivam Kumar, Adv., Mr. Sanjay Kumar Visen, AOR, Mr. L.D. Joshi, Adv., Mr. Gopal Sankaranarayanan, Adv., Ms. Savita Singh, AOR, Mr. Shanu Agrawal, Adv., Mr. Shrutanjay Bhardwaj, Adv., Ms. Veera Mahuli, Adv., M/s. Lawyer S Knit & Co, AOR, Mr. Milind Kumar, AOR, Ms. Aishwarya Bhati, AOR, Mr. Dinkar Kalra, AOR, Ms. Rashmi Singhania, AOR, Mr. Mohit D. Ram, AOR, Mr. Jayant Mohan, AOR, Mr. Nishant Ramakantrao Katneshwarkar, AOR, Mr. T.G. Narayanan Nair, AOR, Mr. Jagjit Singh Chhabra, AOR, Mr. Abhinav Mukerji, AOR, Mr. Mishra Saurabh, AOR, Mr. Manish Vashishtha, AOR, Ms. Ruchi Kohli, AOR, M/s. Corporate Law Group, AOR, Mr. Aniruddha P. Mayee, AOR, Mr. Garvesh Kabra, AOR, Mr. Harish Pandey, AOR, Mrs. Anil Katiyar, AOR, Mr. Anip Sachthey, AOR, Ms. Anitha Shenoy, AOR, Intervenor-in-person, AOR, Mr. Amit Sharma, AOR, Applicant-in-person, AOR, Mr. Jogy Scaria, AOR, Mr. Rabin Majumder, AOR, M/s. Khaitan & Co., AOR, Mr. Harsh Kaushik, AOR, Mr. K.R. Sasiprabhu, AOR, Mr. M. P. Vinod, AOR, Mr. Koshy John, Adv., Mr. Md. Nizam Pasha, Adv., Ms. Anusha Nagarajan, Adv., Mr. Adit Pujari, Adv., Mrs. Pragya Baghel, AOR, Ms. Ranjeeta Rohatgi, Adv., Ms. Samten Doma, Adv., Dr. Lalit Bhasin, Adv., Ms. N. Gupta, Adv., Mr. Neeraj Redhu, Adv., Ms. Palak Chadha, Adv., Mr. Mudit Sharma, AOR, Mr. Saikrishna Rajgopal, Adv., Ms. Julien George, Adv., Ms. Arundhati Gopal, Adv., Mr. Arjun Ranganathan, Adv., Ms. Vaneesha Jain, Adv., Mr. Nikhil Nayyar, Adv., Mr. P.V. Surendra Nath, Sr. Adv., Ms. Resmitha R. Chandran, Adv., Ms. Lekha Sudhakaran, Adv., Mr. Syed Jafar Alam, Adv., Ms. Shivani Khandekar, Adv., Mr. S. Mukherjee, Adv., Mr. Manoj K. Mishra, AOR, Mr. Umesh Dubey, Adv., Mr. Sandeep Kumar Dwivedi, Adv., Ms. Aparna Bhat, Adv., Mr. Mayank Sapra, Adv.,
The Court extended the interim order regarding Aadhaar linking for bank accounts and mobile E-KYC until the final judgment, extending the deadline to March 31, 2018, and expanding the order's scope to include the grant of passports under the Passports (1st Amendment) Rules, 2018.
Headnote:Passports (1st Amendment) Rules, 2018 – Linking of Aadhar to passport – Interim order dated 15.12.2017 extended to issue of passport also. (Para 3, 4)
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2. Petitioners sought extension of interim orders to include passport grants; the State contended that Aadhaar-linked subsidies under the Aadhaar Act should remain undisturbed. (Para 2 )
3. The court found that interim orders could be extended to passport grants provided that statutory subsidies and benefits under the Aadhaar Act remained undisturbed. (Para 2 , 3 )
4. Interim relief against mandatory Aadhaar linkage may be extended to new services provided it does not interfere with statutory delivery of financial subsidies. (Para 2 , 3 )
5. Interim order extended until final judgment, covering bank accounts, mobile E-KYC, and passport grants, while excluding Aadhaar Act subsidies. (Para 3 , 4 )
6. Does the extension of the interim order regarding Aadhaar linkage apply to passport applications?
Yes, the court directed that the extension of the interim order shall control and govern the Passports (1st Amendment) Rules, 2018. (Para 4 )
7. Does the interim order against mandatory Aadhaar linkage affect the delivery of government subsidies?
No, the court held that benefits, subsidies, and services covered under Section 7 of the Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Act, 2016 should remain undisturbed. (Para 2 , 3 )
8. What is the scope of the extended interim order regarding bank accounts and mobile services?
The deadline for Aadhaar linking of new bank accounts and the E-KYC process for mobile phone subscribers was extended to 31 March 2018 for both Union and State government schemes. (Para 3 )
ORDER :
1. Mr. P. Chidambaram, learned senior counsel appearing for the petitioner in W.P.(C) No. 231/2016 concluded his arguments. Mr. K.V. Viswanathan, learned senior counsel for the petitioner in W.P.(C) No. 833/2013, who has commenced his arguments has assured that he will finish his arguments by 1.00 p.m. tomorrow.
2. Mr. Arvind Datar, learned senior counsel has brought to our notice that a set of Rules, namely, the Passports (1st Amendment) Rules, 2018 has been introduced which has conceived of Passport under “Tatkal” Scheme. There has been a distinction between the earlier one and the present one. Mr. Arvind Datar and Mr. Shyam Divan, learned senior counsel appearing for the petitioners submitted that the interim order passed by this Court on 15.12.2017 should be extended, and also it should cover the arena relating to the grant of Passports. On a query being made, Mr. K.K. Venugopal, learned Attorney General for India submitted that this Court may think of extending the interim order. However, the benefits, subsidies and services covered under Section 7 of the The Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Act, 2016 should remain undisturbed. We accept the same.
3. Having heard learned counsel for the parties, we accept the submission made by the learned Attorney General. Subject to that, we direct that the interim order passed on 15.12.2017 shall stand extended till the matter is finally heard and the judgment is pronounced. That apart, the directions issued in the interim order shall apply as stated in paragraphs 11 to 13 in the said order. For the sake of clarity, we reproduce the said paragraphs which read as under:-
“11. In terms of (iii) above, subject to the submission of the details in regard to the filing of an application for an Aadhaar card and the furnishing of the application number to the account opening bank, we likewise extend the last date for the completion of the process of Aadhaar linking of new bank accounts to 31 March 2018.
12. In terms of (iv) above we extend the date for the completion of the E-KYC process in respect of mobile phone subscribers until 31 March 2018.
13. Consistent with the above directions, we also direct that the extension of the last date for Aadhar linkage to 31 March 2018 shall apply, besides the schemes of the Ministries/Departments of the Union government to all state governments in similar terms. As a consequence of the extension of the deadline to 31 March 2018, it is ordered accordingly.”
4. It is also directed that the same shall also control and govern the Passports (1st Amendment) Rules, 2018.
5. Let the matter be listed tomorrow (14.3.2018).
