New Delhi: The Centre on Wednesday informed the Supreme Court that it would extend the deadline for mandatory linking of the Aadhaar card to avail of banking and other social security benefits from December 31, 2017 to March 31, 2018.
Senior counsel Shyam Divan, appearing for the petitioners, urged the court to stay various notifications under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act to link the Aadhaar card with bank accounts. Pointing out that several complaints had been received about the hacking of accounts after Aadhaar was linked, he prayed for a stay of the notifications.
Senior counsel Arvind Datar said the CBSE had issued a recent circular that unless a student possessed an Aadhaar card, he/she would not be given an admit card to take the exam in March next year.
The A-G said no services, that were otherwise available, would be denied for non-linking of Aadhaar. He said the panel headed by former Supreme Court judge B.N. Srikrishna was likely to submit its report on data protection in February 2018.
