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The petition, filed through advocate Karnam Sravan Kumar, said that forcing voters to submit their Aadhaar numbers violated Articles 14 (equality) and 21 (life and personal liberty, including privacy) of the Constitution
The Election Commission of India has given an undertaking to the Supreme Court that it will issue "appropriate clarificatory changes" in Forms 6 and 6B (for Registration in E-Roll) which required.
The bench took note of the submissions of the lawyers for the poll panel that "the Aadhaar number was not mandatory under Rule 26-B of the Registration of Electors (Amendment) Rules, 2022, and hence, the Election Commission was looking into issuing appropriate clarificatory changes in the forms introduced for that purpose".