(LiveMint)
A Constitution bench of the Supreme Court will start hearing the issue of interim stay against mandatory linking of Aadhaar with bank accounts and mobile phone numbers, on Thursday. The bench comprising five judges—Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, justices D.Y. Chandrachud, A.K. Sikri, A.M. Khanwilkar and Ashok Bhushan has been constituted.
The matter was mentioned before a bench headed by CJI Misra who said that the Constitution bench would be set up by Thursday to address the question of interim stay against mandatory linking of Aadhaar.This came after repeated attempts by the petitioners for an early hearing on the issue.
Shyam Divan, senior advocate and one of the petitioners, had previously asked the court to set up a Constitution bench for an interim stay in line with the court’s order of 30 October under which the Constitution bench was supposed to begin hearing the various challenges against Aadhaar in the last week of November.
