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Constitutional Validity of Aadhaar, Day 34: “Why should we not be entitled to use it?”

This is a record of the proceedings in the Supreme Court bench hearings on the Constitutional validity of Aadhaar, which began on Feb 13, 2018. You may read the previous days' proceedings here: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5, Day 6, Day 7, Day 8, Day 9, Day 10, Day 11, Day 12, Day 13, Day 14, Day 15, Day 16., Day 17, Day 18, Day 19, Day 20, Day 2, Day 22, Day 23, Day 24, Day 25, Day 26, Day 27, Day 28, Day 29, Day , Day 31, Day 32 and Day 33. Senior Advocate Gopal Sankaranarayanan, continued his arguments on behalf of Center for Civil Society. Justice Chandrachud began by interjecting to say that Section 7 of the Aadhaar Act seeks to identity the beneficiaries that require subsidies. It doesn't take away other forms of identity. Sankaranarayanan said that Aadhaar is a number which helps identify people who need subsidies. Many don't need that identity. He said that he supported Aadhaar because of the control, security and safeguards it provides and pillars on which the Act stands, but 139AA of the Income Tax Act takes away those. Sankaranarayanan quoted Madhu Kishwar with regard to identity. He then read Justice Kaul's opinion in Puttaswamy. Sankaranarayanan said Aadhaar has none of the dangers and jokingly quoted the link in Dwivedi's profile as outed recently on Twitter about his cricket career. He joked how no-one could find if Dwivedi was a batsman or a bowler. He stated he was an opening batsman. The CJI asked Sankaranarayanan if there is no mass surveillance through…

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