Unique ID: Aadhaar stays, with limits on 'function creep'
The majority verdict puts brakes on the untrammelled use of Aadhaar to gather information on all citizens.
A five-judge bench of the Supreme Court, in an eagerly anticipated verdict on September 26, upheld by a majority of four to one the constitutional validity of the Aadhaar Act, 2016. But the court appeared to also recognise that the penetration of Aadhaar into every sphere of public activity was excessive, what is often described as its 'function creep'. Among the sections it
