NEW DELHI: The Centre on Wednesday will start countering a mountain of legal issues heaped against Aadhaar in the Supreme Court by numerous petitioners in the last two months, primarily focussing on violation of individual’s right to privacy through collection and storage of biometric data.
During 19 days of arguments spanning two months since it began on January 17, senior advocates Shyam Divan, Kapil Sibal, P Chidambaram, Gopal Subramanium, K V Vishwanathan, Anand Grover, Meenakshi Arora, Sajan Poovayya and C U Singh identified specific issues in the Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Act, 2016, and their incongruence with guaranteed constitutional rights.
Divan, the lead counsel for Aadhaar opponents, argued for more than seven days and attempted to shred the foundation of the unique identity by presenting Aadhaar as a draconian surveillance device open to abuse by the government. Sibal supplemented Divan and had said, “This is the most important case for India since 1947. What the Supreme Court will decide is going to have a profound bearing not only on the present generation but all future generations. That is the enormity of the issue. It will decide the value of right to privacy of citizens in future. The SC judgment on Aadhaar will also decide whether fundamental rights will be preserved or destroyed.”
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