‘ JUDGMENT BALANCED, REASONABLE’

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New Delhi, Sept. 26: Advocates who argued in the Aadhaar case and those who keenly watched the proceedings termed the Supreme Court's Wednesday judgement as “good”, “balanced” and “reasonable”.

Senior advocates Rakesh Dwivedi, Arvind Dattar, K V Vishwanathan and Sajan Poovayya, who argued either for or against the Aadhaar scheme, expressed satisfaction over the verdict of the Supreme Court, which cleared the Centre's flagship programme with checks and balances.

Former Attorney General Soli Sorabjee, who had not appeared for any party in the matter, dubbed the judgement as good and also came out with special praise for the lone dissenting judge D Y Chandrachud for his concern on the right to privacy.

“I think on the whole it is a good judgement. Though personally, I am happy with Justice Chandrachud's judgement striking it down on the ground that it bothers the right to privacy. This kind of provision has to be on an experimental basis.

“Later on, there may be more amendments or changes can be made, but the citizen's concern has been largely met by the majority by imposing certain limitation and conditions. Justice Chandrachud's concerns about the intrusion of the right to privacy are very legitimate and personally, I prefer his judgment,” Sorabjee said.

Senior advocate Aman Sinha hailed the judgement saying that it held that there is no breach of Right of Privacy as only minimal required biometric data is collected.