Thread by @gautambhatia88

During today's Aadhaar hearing, the SC directed Telecom companies and Banks to specify the deadline in their messages. (1/n)

This was in response to Mr Arvind Datar, Mr Shyam Divan, Mr Anand Grover and Mr KV Vishwanathan bringing to the Court's attention that +

+ Telcos and Banks were sending messages threatening to freeze SIMs and bank accounts. The Court said that any such message must clearly +

+ specify that the present deadline for banks is December 31 and for phones is Feb 6. (2/n)

The Court also said that since the main Aadhaar case was due to he heard at the end of November, a stay was not necessary at present. (3/n)

However, the Court observed that if the case was not heard as scheduled in November, it would consider a stay at that time. (4/n)

If the case was taken up by the Constitution Bench at the end of November, then the prayer for stay could be made before that bench. (5/n)

The Attorney-General said that these claims of Telcos and Banks sending threatening messages were only oral assertions by petitioners. (6/n)

To this, Justice Sikri replied: "We all know what's happening. We are getting these messages too." (7/n)

Mr Arvind Datar and Mr KV Vishwananathan pointed out that the bank linking and phone linking were entirely illegal and sans authority. (8/n)

The Court said that the Constitution Bench due to hear the main Aadhaar case in November end would consider these issues too.
Finis. (9/9)