-The Indian Express
The challenge to the Aadhaar project is, of course, much more than privacy. Much, much more.
The three-judge bench of the Supreme Court hearing the cases challenging the UID/Aadhaar project has decided that there “appears to be certain amount of apparent unresolved contradiction in the law declared by this Court” in relation to privacy as a fundamental right.
It worries the court that reading the 1954 judgment in MP Sharma’s case and the 1963 judgment in Kharak Singh “literally” and accepting it as “the law of this country”, would denude “the fundamental rights guaranteed under the Constitution of India and more particularly right to liberty under Article 21” of “vigour and vitality”.
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