KOLKATA: The pleas of a mother of a 27-year-old with cerebral palsy, who failed to get Aadhaar-registered despite three attempts because of his physical disability, prompted the Calcutta high court on Thursday to ask the central government one simple question: why were people, including those with serious disability, being forced to knock on the judiciary’s doors to get themselves on the Aadhaar platform?
Sanat Maitra has 83 per cent cerebral palsy, which impairs his ability to look straight at the camera — for the iris scan — or give fingerprints. This has meant three rejections of his application to be enrolled on the Aadhaar platform. But Sanat, his mother Nupur Maitra told the court, had received texts from his bank, telling him to link his bank account with his (non-existent) Aadhaar number, failing which the account would be rendered inoperative.
The Barisha resident, therefore, came to the Calcutta HC, pleading it to direct the government to issue her son an Aadhaar card, which would enable him to withdraw money from his savings account at the Behala branch of a bank.
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