{"id":30006,"date":"2018-10-26T13:25:13","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T07:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=30006"},"modified":"2018-10-26T13:25:13","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T07:55:13","slug":"aadhaar-linkage-will-protect-people-uidai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/aadhaar-linkage-will-protect-people-uidai\/","title":{"rendered":"Aadhaar linkage will protect people: UIDAI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/aadhaar-linkage-will-protect-people-uidai\/article23507284.ece\"><strong>Aadhaar linkage will protect people: UIDAI<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has told the Supreme Court that Aadhaar linkage seeks to protect people from crime<\/p>\n<p><strong>Petitioners\u2019 arguments &amp; center\u2019s responses<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Argument 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Petitioners argued that insistence on Aadhaar for all stigmatises people. It creates a feeling among the public that all are under the government\u2019s scanner for financial fraud, terrorism and tax evasion<\/li>\n<li><strong>Center\u2019s response<\/strong>: When a measure is uniformly applied, it does not mean that everyone is guilty. Administrative measures do not mean individualized suspicion. There is no presumption of guilt on everyone<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Argument 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Aadhar is intrusive and why the public should be subjected to such intrusion of their privacy only to prevent any chances of tax evasion<\/li>\n<li><strong>Center\u2019s response<\/strong>: When tax evasions amount to Rs. 33,000 crore, it is a serious problem which Aadhaar linkage may curb. Provisions like Section 139AA of the Income Tax Act, which mandates the linking of Aadhaar with PAN, is an effort to \u201cbridge the growing gap between the rich and the poor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aadhaar linkage will protect people: UIDAI Context The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has told the Supreme Court that Aadhaar linkage seeks to protect people from crime Petitioners\u2019 arguments &amp; center\u2019s responses Argument 1 Petitioners argued that insistence on Aadhaar for all stigmatises people. It creates a feeling among the public that all are&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/aadhaar-linkage-will-protect-people-uidai\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Aadhaar linkage will protect people: UIDAI<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704785330},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}