WHO SPOKE FOR WHOM, AND SAID WHAT

appearing for Kalyani Menon: Termed Aadhaar as “an electronic leash”, argued that the government could completely destroy an individual by “switching off” the 12-digit unique identifier number.

appearing for

West Bengal government: It’s the most important case to be decided by the apex court since independence and it was not the issue as to how much money the government was going to save, rather, the key point was whether citizens can be deprived of their fundamentals rights including the right to have choices.

appearing for SG Vombatkere: In the absence of a comprehensive data protection regime, data retention in respect of the entire population is a risky proposition and it must be undertaken in accordance with substantive and procedural reasonableness...

appearing for Shanta Sinha: The Act should not have been passed as a money bill, even if the Act was upheld, it couldn’t go beyond subsidies and Aadhaar must be revisited in light of Right to Privacy judgment.

appearing for Jairam Ramesh: The Lok Sabha Speaker’s decision to declare Aadhaar Bill as Money Bill attains finality only as far as parliamentarians are concerned and does not prevent the Supreme Court from judicially reviewing the Speaker’s wisdom, senior advocate P Chidambaram argued