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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

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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 enhancing the accuracy and security of the country’s digital identity ecosystem.

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SN Thyagarajan (Bar Bench) 31 October 2025
The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has ruled that the right to correct errors in Aadhaar data is both a statutory and fundamental right, and that the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) must ensure that citizens can exercise this right without hardship. (Pushpam v. UIDAI)

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Dr Gopal Krishna 24 October 2025
Unjust ideas reincarnate themselves. Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere. Amid ongoing bitter protest of UK citizens against imminent civil deaths due to the unjust requirement for digital-biometric IDs in the UK, justice Bhushan Ramkrishna Gavai, 52nd chief justice of India is likely to retire on 23 November 2025 without finalising the seven-judge bench to undertake 'Judicial Impact Assessment' of legislations like Aadhaar Act 2016, an electronic commerce law and the Finance Act 2017, an omnibus legislation, which are offensive to the basic structure of the Constitution of India.

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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.

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Dr Gopal Krishna 16 September 2025
“As automation takes hold, it becomes obvious that information is the crucial commodity, and that solid products are merely incidental to information movement.”

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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 this Act.

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Sahyaja MS (Bar 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).

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Moneylife Digital Team 01 August 2025
In a stinging judgment, 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 case of identity fraud involving Mumbai-based Vilas Prabhakar Lad, who battled legal notices, criminal proceedings, and financial harassment for five years after his Aadhaar and PAN details were misused by fraudsters.

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 and    and   Yogesh Sapkale 18 July 2025
In a move that resembles long-overdue damage control rather than a proactive reform, the unique identification authority of India (UIDAI) has finally deactivated 1.17 crore Aadhaar numbers belonging to deceased individuals. The announcement comes years after mounting criticism of Aadhaar’s inability to account for the dead, allowing inactive biometric identities to persist unchecked in government databases.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Moneylife Digital Team 15 April 2025
Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has banned Kalapi Shah, a deemed director of Teji Mandi Analytics Pvt Ltd (TMAPL), from accessing the securities market for five years due to his involvement in fraudulent activities linked to Anugrah Stock and Broking Pvt Ltd (ASBPL).

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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.

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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)

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Dr Gopal Krishna 17 March 2025
Citing sources, ANI news agency has reported that "Chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar has called for a discussion with the home secretary, secretary legislative department and CEO UIDAI with the Commission, on the linking of EPIC & Aadhaar. The meeting is scheduled in the election commission on Tuesday, March 18, 2025".

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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)

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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).

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