{"id":36224,"date":"2018-11-02T11:14:54","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T05:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=36224"},"modified":"2018-11-02T11:14:54","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T05:44:54","slug":"five-judge-bench-to-hear-aadhaar-pleas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/five-judge-bench-to-hear-aadhaar-pleas\/","title":{"rendered":"Five-judge Bench to hear Aadhaar pleas:\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/five-judge-bench-to-hear-aadhaar-pleas\/article19267797.ece\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Five-judge Bench to hear Aadhaar pleas<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Five judges- Bench constituted to hear Aadhaar pleas:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A five-judge bench of the Supreme Court will hear a bunch of petitions challenging the constitutionality of the Aadhaar scheme, primarily whether the parting of biometric details by citizens to access welfare and benefits under the scheme is a violation of the right to privacy.<\/span> <b>Introduction:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Attorney General K.K Venugopal for the Centre and senior advocate Shyam Divan made an urgent mention before a bench led by Chief Justice of India J. S. Khehar for setting up a Constitution bench to hear the petitions at the earliest.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The CJI\u2019s decision to set up a five-judge Constitution Bench came after Attorney-General KK Venugopal and senior advocate Shyam Divan mentioned the matter before him.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Supreme Court had referred the case for hearing before a Constitution bench in October 2015.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is the first time the government has formally joined the petitioner\u2019s side to mention the case for an early hearing by a larger bench.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The petitions were filed after Centre notified making Aadhaar mandatory for availing benefits of social welfare schemes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The centre, however, had assured the top court that no one would be deprived for want of this identification.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Petitions have been field in the apex court challenging several government notifications mandating Aadhaar for availing benefits under various social welfare schemes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the petitions being heard is filed by former NCPCR chairperson and Maysaysay winner Shanta Sinha.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The top court, however, had allowed the Centre to seek Aadhaar card voluntarily from citizens for extending benefits of schemes like LPG subsidy, Jan Dhan scheme and Public Distribution System.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b> Hearing on July 18-19:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Constitution Bench will decide if the Aadhaar scheme violated an individual\u2019s right to privacy.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The bench may also refer the issue to a 9 judge bench.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The hearing would begin on July 18<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five-judge Bench to hear Aadhaar pleas:\u00a0 Five judges- Bench constituted to hear Aadhaar pleas: Context: A five-judge bench of the Supreme Court will hear a bunch of petitions challenging the constitutionality of the Aadhaar scheme, primarily whether the parting of biometric details by citizens to access welfare and benefits under the scheme is a violation&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/five-judge-bench-to-hear-aadhaar-pleas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Five-judge Bench to hear Aadhaar pleas:\u00a0<\/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-36224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700770997,"cached_date":1704915099},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36224","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=36224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}