New Delhi: The Reserve Bank of India, market regulator Sebi and the Gujarat government today petitioned the Supreme Court to modify its earlier order restricting the use of Aadhaar cards to a handful of schemes.
In separate applications, the petitioners requested that authorities be allowed to demand the production of Aadhaar cards for all services, social welfare schemes and securities transactions. Else, they argued, the precluded schemes would be affected.
The bench of Justices J. Chelameshwar, S.A. Bobde and C. Nagappan agreed to examine the pleas on October 6.
On August 11, the same bench had restricted the mandatory use of Aadhaar cards to the subsidised food grain, kerosene and cooking gas schemes, that too as an interim measure till a Constitution Bench decided the Aadhaar scheme’s validity.
On October 6, it will also examine whether it can modify its own order since, on August 11, it had referred the matter to a five-judge constitution bench.