PTI, NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today observed that Aadhaar can do little to stop banking frauds and also questioned the Centre for asking the entire population to link their mobile phones with the unique identity card “just to catch a few terrorists”.
The apex court also observed that bank officials were “hand-in-glove” with fraudsters and that scams do not happen because the culprits are unknown.
The court made the observations after the Centre argued that Aadhaar would help curb ills like terrorism and banking frauds.
It then asked the Centre what will happen, if tomorrow, the authorities such as the UIDAI, asks the citizens to part with their DNA, semen and blood samples as part of their Aadhaar demographics.
A five-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, hearing a clutch of petitions challenging the validity of Aadhaar and its enabling 2016 law, while prima facie disagreeing with the Centre’s submissions said Aadhaar was “not the solution” to banking frauds.
