
Updates from Supreme Court – Day 2
After an eventful Day 1, Senior Advocate Shyam Divan commenced his arguments on Day 2 on making #Aadhaar mandatory for filing Income Tax Returns.
- Shyam Divan rattling off statistics on identity theft in
#Aadhaar arguments; quotes the Angela Merkel example - “[Is the state] by an electronic leash, going to walk us around like a dog for the rest of our life?”
- “Seems like Shyam Divan wants stealthily slip in arguments on privacy issues in #Aadhaar” AG Rohatgi objects vociferously
- “Nowhere in the world such number tagging is done. It used to happen in [Nazi] concentration camps”
- Sr. adv. Shyam Divan cites doctrine of informed consent as a barrier to leaking of sensitive data like fingerprints
- The very object of the provision is discriminatory, between persons who have parted with bio metrics and those who don’t
- Day 2 hearing concludes; To resume tomorrow, Shyam Divan to continue.
Gautam Bhatia (@@gautambhatia88), Advocate, has been live tweeting each of the arguments from the Supreme Court. Here are his tweets (Best to read from bottom up)
https://barandbench.com/aadhar-hearing-number-tagging-nazi-concentration-camps/
April 29, 2017 at 12:43 pm
The tagging of numbers of people poses danger to individual rights of freedom and privacy. The present proposal in India is an extension of the Nazi regime acts