PROTIK PRAKASH BANERJEE, J.

1. This is an application under Article 226 of the Constitution of India. Essentially the writ petitioner has impugned the manner in which the second respondent records data regarding citizens in India under the provisions of the Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and other Subsidies, benefits and services) Act, 2016 and also the provisions of the (Aadhaar Enrolment and update) Regulation 2018. However, the exact reliefs claimed by the writ petitioner principally are as follows:

(a) A writ of and/or order and/or direction in the nature of Mandamus do issue commanding the respondents authorities, each one of them, their men, agents, servants, subordinates and/or assigns to take steps against the private Respondent for offences committed punishable under the Indian Penal Code and under the Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and other Subsidies, benefits and services) Act, 2016 and Section 31 of the Representation of People Act, 1950 as per the complaint of the petitioner;

(b) A writ of and/or order and/or direction in the nature o