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India: Text of Supreme Court Ruling of 11 August 2015 re Aadhaar / UID

12 August 2015

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Supreme Court Order of 11 Aug 2015 in WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) NO.494 OF 2012
WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) NO.494 OF 2012 Justice K.S. Puttaswamy (Retd.) & Another ...Petitioners Versus Union of India & Others ...Respondents

[see also: important article by Dr. Usha Ramanathan explaining the judgement]

Decoding the Aadhaar judgment: No more seeding, not till the privacy issue is settled by the court

by Dr. Usha Ramanathan

The challenge to the Aadhaar project is, of course, much more than privacy. Much, much more.
The three-judge bench of the Supreme Court hearing the cases challenging the UID/Aadhaar project has decided that there “appears to be certain amount of apparent unresolved contradiction in the law declared by this Court†in relation to privacy as a fundamental right. [. . .]

FULL TEXT at: http://indianexpress.com/article/blogs/decoding-the-aadhar-judgment-no-more-seeding-not-till-the-privacy-issue-is-settled-by-the-court/ ]