[Urbanstudy] Voter IDs being linked with UID

[Anivar Aravind]

If they try to make it compulsory, it would constitute a blatant contempt
of the Supreme Court of India order dated 23rd September 2013 (see
http://goo.gl/j074OG ). This Supreme Court order renders any direction of
insistence of Aadhaar numbers from Indian citizens illegal. Please see
attachment for the copy of the order, which states:

"In the meanwhile, no person should suffer for not getting the Adhaar card
inspite of the fact that some authority had issued a circular making it
mandatory..."

Further, in another order dated 24th March 2014 (see http://goo.gl/qoBskk),
the Supreme Court of India reaffirmed this point and elaborated:

"...no person shall be deprived of any service for want of Aadhaar number
in case he/she is otherwise eligible/entitled. All the authorities are
directed to modify their forms/circulars/likes so as to not compulsorily
require the Aadhaar number in order to meet the requirement of the interim
order passed by this Court forthwith."
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