The Puzzling Dismissal Of Aadhaar Review Despite Pendency Of Larger Bench Reference On Money Bill Issue livelaw.in - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from livelaw.in Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Supreme Court, by 4:1 majority, has dismissed a batch of review petitions challenging the judgment of the Constitution Bench in Aadhaar case [Puttaswamy (Aadhaar-5J.) v Union of India].While.
SC Rejects Pleas Seeking Review of 2018 Aadhaar Verdict, Justice DY Chandrachud Dissents
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The Supreme Court has dismissed a batch of pleas seeking review of its 2018 verdict which had upheld the Centre s flagship Aadhaar scheme as constitutionally valid but struck down some of its provisions, including its linking with bank accounts, mobile phones and school admissions.
A five-judge Constitution bench headed by Justice AM Khanwilkar, by a majority of 4:1, rejected the review pleas against the apex court s September 26, 2018 verdict. Justice DY Chandrachud, one of the five-judges of the bench, dissented with the majority order and said that review petitions be kept pending until a larger bench decides the question related to certification of a bill as a money bill. Justice Chandrachud, in his famous dissenting verdict in 2018 in the case, had held that Aadhaar Act should not have been passed as money bill as it amounts to a fraud on the Constitution and is liable
<i>It is a constitutional error to hold at this stage that no ground exists to review the judgment</i>, Justice DY Chandrachud remarked in his dissent against dismissal of review petitions challenging Aadhaa.