Splendid Courtroom on Tuesday stated that it can not read about the claims of misuse or fraudulent issuance of Aadhaar playing cards, and such issues must be addressed by way of the Union govt.

The Splendid Courtroom on Tuesday stated that it can not read about the claims of misuse or fraudulent issuance of Aadhaar playing cards, and such issues must be addressed by way of the Union govt.

The Leader Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant, Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice Vipin Pancholi made the remark whilst listening to an issue associated with the continued Particular Extensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal.

The problem arose in reference to a rationalization issued by way of the Courtroom in regards to the acceptance and use of Aadhaar playing cards within the SIR procedure. In quest of an extra rationalization, recommend Ashwini Upadhyay, who may be a member of the Bharatiya Janata Birthday celebration (BJP), alleged that Aadhaar playing cards are being fraudulently issued in West Bengal, specifically to Rohingyas.

Justice Bagchi stated that Upadhyay could make a illustration to the Union of India for amending the regulation, together with the Illustration of Peoples Act.”If Aadhaar is fraudulently procured on commercial scale, it must be statutorily regulated. Aadhaar used to be introduced in as a file to behave as an identification evidence and we need to recognize that. There’s no query of citizenship being canvassed on Aadhaar,” the pass judgement on added.

On equivalent traces, CJI Kant stated,”This wishes a deeper probe and the court docket isn’t a discussion board for this.”This wishes a deeper probe and the court docket isn’t a discussion board for this.In September 2025, the Splendid Courtroom had directed the Election Fee of India (ECI) and its government to simply accept Aadhaar Card as an evidence of identification for the aim of inclusion or exclusion within the revised voter listing of the State of Bihar.

The Courtroom had famous as consistent with Phase 23(4) of the Illustration of Folks Act, 1950, the Aadhaar Card is without doubt one of the paperwork enumerated for the aim of organising the identification of an individual.

“Aadhaar Card, for this function, will be handled because the twelfth file by way of the Government. It’s, alternatively, made transparent that the government will be entitled to make sure the authenticity and genuinity of the Aadhaar Card, like every of the opposite enumerated paperwork, by way of in the hunt for additional evidence/paperwork,” the Courtroom had ordered.