New Delhi sources have stated that the Supreme Court on Wednesday had started the hearing of a petition challenging the validity of the Aadhaar system. Meanwhile the petitioners told the five-judge Constitution bench in the Supreme Court on Wednesday that the Aadhaar data base "tends to terrorize citizens with the country becoming a totalitarian regime" as there is "no free consent in furnishing bio metric information for Aadhaar."
Further the petitioners also said that Aadhaar is transforming the country into a "surveillance state." Meanwhile senior Supreme Court lawyer Shyam Divan, appearing for the petitioners, said that Aadhaar will cause the death of civil rights of the citizens and transform a people's Constitution into a State's Constitution."
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former UIDAI chairman Nandan Nilekani, however, again defended the system,
saying that India's achievement with the Aadhaar is in itself a revolution and
the Supreme Court has also received petitions regarding the linkage of this 12
digit Aadhaar number with mobile phones, bank accounts and with other services,
and the last date for which was extended to March 31, 2018.
