Calcutta HC Questions Non Verification Of Declarations Made During Aadhaar Enrollment [Read Judgment]

The Calcutta High Court has observed that is arbitrary to allow one sort of information establishing the identity of an individual to pass without verification during the Aadhaar enrollment process.A landlord had approached the high court alleging that an employee of his deceased tenant took advantage of the death of the tenant and alleged falsely that he was the son of the deceased tenant and. The Calcutta High Court has observed that is arbitrary to allow one sort of information establishing the identity of an individual to pass without verification during the Aadhaar enrollment process. A landlord had approached the high court alleging that an employee of his deceased tenant took advantage of the death of the tenant and alleged falsely that he was the son of the deceased tenant and on the basis of an Aadhaar card where the demographic information which he relied upon for such false allegation, was furnished by him and accepted without verification by the UIDAI, he filed a civil suit for declaration of his tenancy. The court further observed: "Information collected from an individual during the Aadhaar application process could not be treated with such disparity which would allow even false demographic information to pass under the scanner of the Aadhaar authorities without even being sufficiently verified.