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The Supreme Court of India will today pronounce judgments in several landmark cases ranging from the Aadhar case to reservation in promotions and live streaming of court proceedings
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Live Updates as Supreme Court set to pronounce verdicts on landmark cases, including on India's unique ID Aadhaar to reservation in promotions and live streaming of court proceedings
Live Updates as Supreme Court set to pronounce verdicts on several cases, including on the Aadhaar case affecting every Indian to a challenge to Ahmed Patel’s election to Rajya Sabha, reservation in promotions to live streaming of court proceedings
Published: 26 Sep 2018, 9:48 AM IST
Landmark judgments coming from Supreme Court Constitution benches ahead of CJI Dipak Misra's retirement on October 3, 2018
Supreme Court Constitution Bench will announce judgement, reserved on May 10 on Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other. Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Act, 2016
Key judgments out today include Aadhaar; Reservation in promotions; Live Streaming of court proceedings; Challenge to Ahmed Patel's Rajya Sabha membership; Indira Jaising plea to expunge remarks in Loya Case; reports Live Law
Hearing on writ petitions challenging constitutionality of Aadhaar went on for 38 days, second longest in history of Supreme Court
Constitution Bench on Aadhaar case comprises Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice AK Sikri, Justice AM Khanwilkar, Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice Ashok Bhushan
Judgment in SC/ST reservations in promotions case is a reconsideration of Supreme Court's M Nagaraj v Union of India case; reports Bar & Bench
First judgment at 10.30 am: 5-judge Constitution bench to pronounce on relook of SC's 2006 Nagaraj judgment (reservation in promotion); followed by Aadhaar Verdict at 10.45 am, reports Deccan Herald
Read: Usha Ramanathan ‘Difficult to believe Aadhaar was so ill thought out’
Usha Ramanathan has been pointing out concerns about Aadhaar since 2013: She says, from the start there were serious concerns that we knew so little about the project: we were just instructed to give our personal information, to a database through a multitude of outsourced enrollers
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Read: Godavar 'The return to meaning: The long road back from Aadhaar'
Godavar: Will we place our blind faith in a system that seeks to tie every aspect of our lives into a neat bouquet waiting to welcome anyone who wants to hack their way into control?
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Ahead of Aadhaar verdict, former AG Mukul Rohatgi, who represented the government in the case, tells ANI he hopes the judgement is in favour of Aadhaar
Former Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi to ANI: "Data protection is very important and government has made it clear that it will protect the data. A law is also coming in this regard"
Rahul Gandhi, Congress leaders and party workers wish former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on his birthday
Read: Mohan Guruswamy on Aadhaar and the right to privacy
Aadhaar scheme is a huge and costly effort and if its potential is not exploited to the fullest, it will be a wasted effort with people having little to show except for a numerical identification tag
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Read: Many widows, disabled and elderly in Uttarakhand without pension for months due to Aadhaar glitches
With the high cost of commuting to Aadhaar centres in hilly Uttarakhand and other glitches, at least 50,000 people in the state—widows, disabled, the elderly—have not received their pension for months
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SC/ST reservation in promotions: Bench assembles, pronouncement commences on correctness of M Nagaraj v. Union of India; reports Bar & Bench
SC/ST reservation in promotions: Supreme Court five-Judge Constitution Bench says no need to refer 2006 Nagaraj judgement; turns down Centre's plea; reports Indian Express
Reservation in promotions: M Nagraj judgment will not be referred to 7 judges bench, holds the Constitution Bench of Supreme Court; reports Live Law
Supreme Court Constitution Bench that heard reconsideration of Nagraj rises. Next is Aadhaar; reports Live Law; Chief Justice's Court of Supreme Court sees unprecedented crowd as the country awaits a judgment that will have effects on lives of all the citizens.
Bench consisting of CJI, Justices Chandrachud, Sikri, Khanwilkar and Bhushan to sit shortly to deliver Aadhaar judgment; reports Live Law
Supreme Court says states need not collect quantifiable data on backwardness of SC/ST for giving reservation in job promotion to SC/ST employees
There are 3 judgements on Aadhaar; Justice A K Sikri starts pronouncement. His judgement is concurred by CJI and Justice AM Khanwilkar. Justices DY Chandrachud and A Bhushan wrote their separate opinions; reports Deccan Herald
Justice AK Sikri, reading from summary of Aadhaar judgment, says "Better to be unique than the best. Best is number 1, but unique means the only one"; reports The Hindu
Justice AK Sikri, reading from summary of Aadhaar judgment, says "UIDAI is established as statutory body, providing authentication. All residents are eligible to get Aadhaar. It can't be reassigned to anyone as it is unique"; reports Deccan Herald
Justice AK Sikri, reading from summary of Aadhaar judgment, says Aadhaar eliminates any chance of duplication. Sikri also states that enrolment was fool proof; reports Live Law
Justice AK Sikri, reading from summary of Aadhaar judgment, says there is no possibility of obtaining duplicate Aadhaar card; the unique identification proof also empowers and gives identity to marginalised sections of the society; reports Bar & Bench
Justice Sikri says main plank of challenge to Aadhaar project and Aadhaar Act is that it infringes Right to Privacy; states that heavy reliance has been placed on Privacy judgment of 2017; reports Bar & Bench
Justice Sikri observes that petitioners main plank is that Aadhaar is based on violation of rights, will lead to a surveillance state
READ: SC/ST reservation in promotion: SC refuses to refer verdict to 7-judge bench
Supreme Court says it applied various tests, and several standards, including fair and reasonable ones, proportionality of judicial scrutiny to examine validity of Aadhaar; reports Deccan Herald
Breaking: Supreme Court concludes we are of the view it is difficult to create profile of individuals by Aadhaar. There are enough safeguards; reports Deccan Herald
Breaking: Supreme Court satisfied that there is sufficient defence mechanism for authentication. Some provisions relating to authentication are however struck down. Section 33(2) of Aadhaar Act struck down; reports Bar & Bench
Breaking: Supreme Court strikes down Section 57 of Aadhaar Act which private entities to demand Aadhaar to access services; reports The Hindu
National security exception for disclosure of Aadhaar information as per Section 33(2) struck down by Supreme Court; reports Live Law
Supreme Court reads down Section 33(1) permitting disclosure of Aadhaar information on orders of District Judge, to enable opportunity of hearing to the owner of data; reports Live Law
Supreme Court Justice AK Sikri asks Centre to "introduce strong data protection law as soon as possible"; reports ANI
Supreme Court declares Aadhaar Scheme constitutionally valid; reports NDTV
Aadhaar: Supreme Court says consent of guardians required in case of children, at 18, children should be given a choice to opt out. Aadhaar not compulsory for school education; reports Deccan Herald
Supreme Court says CBSE, UGC, NEET can't insist for Aadhaar; reports Deccan Herald
Breaking: Supreme Court says Aadhaar authentication data cannot be stored for more than six months.
Big blow to UIDAI as Section 47 of Aadhaar Act struck down, any individual must be allowed to file complaints; says Live Law
Breaking: Supreme Court upholds Aadhaar Act being passed as Money bill, upholds seeding of PAN with Aadhaar, sets aside linking Aadhaar to bank accounts; reports Indian Express
Supreme Court directs government not to give Aadhaar to illegal immigrants
Supreme Court says no child can be denied benefits of any schemes on not being able to bring their Aadhaar number
Supreme Court: Aadhaar cannot be mandatory for mobile connections; DoT notification to that effect unconstitutional; reports Bar & Bench
Congress MP and senior lawyer Abhishek Manu Singhvi says Supreme Court verdict a huge blow to Modi Government; 90% of its claims rejected
Supreme Court says Aadhaar mandatory for filing of Income Tax returns and allotment of Permanent Account Number (PAN)
Justice DY Chandrachud says "In view of prevailing cynicism, and aggrandising of power of various authorities, speaker of Lok Sabha's decision can be examined", on question if Aadhaar Act could have been passed as Money Bill; reports Deccan Herald
Justice DY Chandrachud dissents, holds Aadhaar Act could not have been passed as Money Bill, says Article 110 has specific grounds for Money Bill. Aadhaar law went beyond these grounds; reports The Hindu
Justice DY Chandrachud: "Passing of Aadhaar Act as Money Bill is a fraud on the Constitution"; reports The Hindu
Justice DY Chandrachud: "Rajya Sabha has an important role. It damages bicameralism if its role is obviated. Differences to be resolved through dialogue. Debasement of institution can't be allowed"; reports Deccan Herald
Justice DY Chandrachud: Ruling party many not have majority in Rajya Sabha, but it shouldn’t have introduced Aadhaar bill as Money Bill...That would qualify as subterfuge...The debasement of democratic institutions cannot be allowed; reports Indian Express
Justice DY Chandrachud: Rights of 1.2 billion citizens cannot be tested as a mere contract with UIDAI; Aadhaar does not pass the test of Article 14 of the constitution; reports Live Law
Historic dissent by Justice DY Chandrachud; holds Aadhaar unconstitutional in its entirety
Justice DY Chandrachud: "Mandating Aadhaar for benefits and services under Section 7 would lead to a situation in which citizens will not be able to live without Aadhaar. Hence, Section 7 of Aadhaar Act is arbitrary and unconstitutional; reports Bar & Bench
Justice DY Chandrachud says Aadhaar linking with PAN is unconstitutional. Consequences of not giving Aadhaar number are draconian; reports Deccan Herald
Justice DY Chandrachud: "Aadhaar programme violates informational privacy, self-determination and data protection"
Justice DY Chandrachud says seeding mobile phones to Aadhaar poses grave danger to individual liberty. Asks telecom operators to delete all data they have collected from users
Justice Chandrachud favours deletion of consumers' Aadhaar data by mobile service providers
SC strikes down Section 57 of Aadhaar Act, 2016. So you don't need to give your Aadhaar to private bodies like banks, schools, mobile companies. Mamata Banerjee fought hard for this, says Trinamool Congress in statement
"So Mr Modi/Ravi Shankar Prasad, Why did your government hijack data from Indian citizens when banks/mobile phone companies were told to capture our Aadhaar information despite Aadhar being sub-judice? How will you return our data back to us? It's already sold," says Congress leader Sanjay Jha
Congress welcomes SC verdict on Aadhaar; says "Modi Govt’s draconian Section 57 quashed - Bank A/c, Mobile, School, Airlines, Travel Agents, Pvt entities requiring Aaadhar Data quashed"
Supreme Court allows petition filed by senior advocate Indira Jaising pleading for live streaming of cases; Justice DY Chandrachud says live streaming only an extension of open court; reports The Leaflet
Supreme Court allows live streaming of court proceedings, says, 'it will start from the Supreme Court. Rules have to be followed for this. Live streaming of court proceedings will bring accountability into the judicial system; reports ANI
Supreme Court dismisses petition filed by advocate RP Luthra challenging the appointment of Justice Ranjan Gogoi as the next Chief Justice of India; reports ANI
Former Attorney General of India Soli Sorabjee tells ANI, "I think on the whole it [Aadhaar Verdict] is a good judgement. Though personally, I am happy with Justice Chandrachud's judgement striking it down on the ground that it bothers right to privacy"
Very happy with "landmark and remarkable" judgment, Attorney General KK Venugopal tells ANI
Supreme Court asks Gujarat High Court to decide afresh the plea of senior Congress leader Ahmed Patel challenging maintainability of a petition filed by BJP leader Balwantsinh Rajput against his election to the Rajya Sabha; reports Live Law
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Published: 26 Sep 2018, 9:48 AM IST