Breaking: Supreme Court to pronounce judgment tomorrow on validity of Aadhaar

The Supreme Court will pronounce its judgment tomorrow in the case relating to validity of Aadhaar..The judgment will be pronounced by a Bench of Chief Justice of India, Dipak Misra and Justices AK Sikri, AM Khanwilkar, DY Chandrachud and Ashok Bhushan..The brainchild of the UPA government, the Aadhaar Bill was passed by the BJP government with the mode of the passage of the Bill itself raking up controversy and becoming subject matter of litigation before the Supreme Court..From making Aadhaar mandatory for dispensing welfare schemes’ benefit to an attempt to bring transparency in the taxation of individuals, almost all the steps towards making Aadhaar the only gateway for complete financial and social inclusion, were challenged before the Supreme Court..The first petition challenging Aadhaar was filed as far back as in 2012. After a long journey in the Supreme Court, which saw several new petitions, a number of different Benches, a landmark judgment by a nine-Judge Bench and a number of deadline extensions for linking of Aadhaar, the hearing in the case concluded in May 2018..Aadhaar hearing was one of the longest hearings in the Supreme Court, second only to Kesavananda Bharati case.