[COVID vaccination] Supreme Court seeks response from Centre on plea against insistence on Aadhaar

The plea by lawyer Siddharthshankar Sharma said that insisting on Aadhaar as the only means of identification is violative of right to life under Article 21 of the Constitution.

Aadhaar and Covid vaccine

Debayan Roy

The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to the Central government on a public interest litigation (PIL) petition challenging the insistence on submitting Aadhaar details on CoWIN portal for getting vaccinated against COVID-19 (Siddharthshankar Sharma v. Union of India).

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