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Hon’ble SC: “The architecture of Aadhaar as well as the provisions of the Aadhaar Act do not tend to create a surveillance state.” (Pg 541 of the landmark judgment) @PMOIndia @rsprasad @PIB_India #Aadhaar4Development @MIB_India

Hon’ble SC: “...there is no data collection on the movements of such individuals, when they avail benefits under Section 7 of the Act thereby ruling out the possibility of creating their profiles.” (Pg 552 of the landmark judgment)

Hon’ble SC: “it is very difficult to create profile of a person simply on the basis of biometric and demographic information stored in CIDR.” (Pg 543 of the landmark judgment)
#AadhaarVerdict #Aadhaar4Development

Hon’ble SC: Aadhaar enrolment of the unprivileged and marginalised section of the society, in order to avail the fruits of welfare schemes of the Government, actually amounts to empowering these persons. (Pg 552 of the landmark judgment)
#AadhaarVerdict #Aadhaar4Development

“insofar as authentication is concerned, the respondents (UIDAI) rightly pointed out that there are sufficient safeguard mechanisms” (Pg 542 of SC judgment)
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“Aadhaar Act meets the concept of Limited Government, Good Governance and Constitutional Trust.” (Pg 561 of the #SupremeCourt judgment)
#Aadhaar4Development

"The entire aim behind launching this programme (Aadhaar) is the ‘inclusion’ of the deserving persons who need to get such benefits.... 1/2

...When it is serving much larger purpose by reaching hundreds of millions of deserving persons, it cannot be crucified on the unproven plea of exclusion of some." (Pg 553 of #SupremeCourt judgment)
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