How Will Aadhaar Be Affected by SC’s Right to Privacy Verdict?

What happens to the Aadhaar programme now that the SC has held we have a fundamental right to privacy?

Legal Correspondent Vakasha Sachdev assesses the impact of the judgment on the validity of Aadhaar

The Supreme Court has clarified that privacy is a fundamental right, protected under the Constitution. This has huge implications for the validity of the Aadhaar programme, challenges to which were the reason behind this case in the first place.

The government insists that this judgment will not affect Aadhaar, because the government’s linkage of Aadhaar to various public and private schemes is already compliant with the Supreme Court’s judgment.

But is this true? The Quint’s Legal Correspondent Vakasha Sachdev explains what happens next.

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