AADHAAR


Dr Gopal Krishna 28 January 2026
If Aadhaar-based digital injustice, slavery and totalitarianism are not wrong, nothing is wrong.  The question—‘Are we all going to continue to give our consent to voluntary servitude to the beneficial owners of the automatic identification and biometric profiling machines, or will we confront...

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Moneylife Digital Team 09 December 2025
On the eve of Human Rights Day (10th December), more than 50 organisations and over 200 prominent individuals from across India have issued a sharply worded international warning against adopting Aadhaar-style biometric identity systems, urging governments worldwide not to be swayed by what...

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Moneylife Digital Team 28 November 2025
The Maharashtra revenue department has announced a major crackdown on fraudulent birth and death certificates, declaring that Aadhaar will no longer be accepted as a supporting document for issuing delayed birth certificates. All birth certificates issued solely on the basis of Aadhaar after...

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In a move that resembles long-overdue damage control rather than a proactive reform, the unique identification authority of India (UIDAI) has deactivated more than 20mn (million) (2 crore) Aadhaar numbers belonging to deceased individuals as part of a nationwide clean-up exercise aimed at...

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Moneylife Digital Team 29 September 2025
The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has announced a revision in the fees charged for Aadhaar-related services, which will come into effect from 1 October 2025. The revision will be implemented in two phases and will cover services such as updating or correcting demographic...

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Dr Gopal Krishna 28 August 2025
An Aadhaar number-holder is an individual, not a citizen or voter of India. Section 2 (b) of the Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Act, 2016 states that ‘Aadhaar number holder’ means ‘an individual who has been issued an Aadhaar number’ under...

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Sahyaja MS (Bar  and   Bench) 12 August 2025
The Bombay High Court on Tuesday observed that one does not become a citizen of India merely by possessing documents such as an Aadhaar card, PAN card or Voter ID card (Babu Abdul Ruf Sardar v The State of Maharashtra).   A single Bench of Justice Amit Borkar made the observation while...

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Moneylife Digital Team 01 August 2025
In a stinging judgement, the Bombay High Court has pulled up multiple statutory and regulatory bodies—including the unique identification authority of India (UIDAI), the income-tax (I-T) department, Union Bank of India and goods and services tax (GST) authorities—for failing to act on a blatant...

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In a move that resembles long-overdue damage control rather than a proactive reform, the unique identification authority of India (UIDAI) has finally deactivated 11.7mn (million) Aadhaar numbers belonging to deceased individuals. The announcement comes years after mounting criticism of...

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Moneylife Digital Team 01 July 2025
The Bombay High Court (HC) has ordered Yes Bank to pay Rs50,000 in compensation to a private company after it wrongfully insisted on Aadhaar as a mandatory document for opening a bank account—despite the Supreme Court having struck down such a requirement.   The division bench comprising...

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Amidst rising concerns over data accuracy in innumerable Aadhaar cards, that has caught even school and college children in a Catch-22 crisis if their cards used for identification do not match during admission in their educational institutes, the Right to Information (RTI) route taken by a...

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Dr Gopal Krishna 20 June 2025
“Fundamental rights are human rights and are, therefore, natural rights which are not conferred by the Constitution of India to take away. Sarv Mittra Sikri, the 13th chief justice of India has been proven right in subsequent judgments of the Supreme Court. Most notably, decisions in IR Coelho...

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Dr Gopal Krishna 06 June 2025
Transfer of biometric database compromises the sovereignty of nations in South Asia. The spectre of an authoritarian, vindictive, surveillance state thus continues looming large over India.     - Dr Shashi Tharoor, chairperson, parliamentary standing committee on external affairs in Our...

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Moneylife Digital Team 07 April 2025
Taking a serious note of verified workers not getting paid due to not linking their bank accounts with Aadhaar, the Supreme Court directed the Delhi government to explain which law says bank accounts cannot be operated without Aadhaar.    In an order on 2 April 2025, a bench of justice Abhay...

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Moneylife Digital Team 31 March 2025
Following reports about severe issues, including financial death due to multiple issues with Aadhaar cards and non-availability of Aadhaar seva kendras (ASKs), the unique identification authority of India (UIDAI) is planning to increase the number of ASKs to 470 from 88.   According to a...

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Dr Gopal Krishna 17 March 2025
In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.  -Thomas Szasz in The Second Sin, 1974   "I have a file on you."   - MK Narayanan's routine threat to his adversaries as national security adviser (NSA) quoted in Sanjay Baru's book The...

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Dr Gopal Krishna 07 February 2025
In the context of 'promoting ease of living of residents' of India, “India Digital Financial Inclusion: Journey Map Report” (March 2019) by Mobile Solutions Technical Assistance and Research (mSTAR) project of United States Agency for International Development (USAID) refers to the Aadhaar and...

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Dr Gopal Krishna 04 February 2025
The Aadhaar Act disallows an individual access to the biometric information that forms the core of her unique ID (Aadhaar). The lack of access is problematic for the following reasons: First, verification of whether the biometrics have been recorded correctly or not in the first place is not...

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Moneylife Digital Team 15 November 2024
While several reports ask taxpayers to link their permanent account number (PAN) with Aadhaar before 31 December 2024, the actual deadline to do so is already over. In fact, from 1 July 2023, PANs not linked with Aadhaar became inoperative. Since then, the Union government has been collecting...

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Moneylife Digital Team 25 October 2024
The Supreme Court ruled that Aadhaar cannot be used as proof of date of birth (DoB) or proof of age and for determination of age in a motor accident claim, and the school leaving certificate having a statutory recognition is valid and acceptable proof. Even UIDAI (unique identification...

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