[Aadhaar] Read The Summary Of Majority (4:1) Judgment

Much awaited Aadhaar Judgment is finally out.The judgment authored by Justice AK Sikri, which has concurrence of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice AM Khanwilkar, has read down some of the provisions of the Aadhaar Act 2016, struck down a few but significant ones, 47 and 57), and upheld. That portion of Section 57 of the Aadhaar Act which enables body corporate and individual to seek authentication is held to be unconstitutional. PAN Linking Upheld, Bank-Mobile Linking Unconstitutional The court further held that Section 139AA of the Income Tax Act, 1961 is not violative of right to privacy as it satisfies the triple test existence of a law; a ‘legitimate State interest’; and such law should pass the ‘test of proportionality’, However, the bench held that the move of mandatory linking of Aadhaar with bank account does not satisfy the test of proportionality. Justice ASHOK BHUSHAN almost agrees with Justice Sikri judgment Following is the summary from Justice Ashok Bhushan’s judgment The requirement under Aadhaar Act to give one's demographic and biometric information does not violate fundamental right of privacy. The provisions of Aadhaar Act requiring demographic and biometric information from a resident for Aadhaar Number pass three­fold test as laid down in Puttaswamy case, hence cannot be said to be unconstitutional.