Aadhaar Gives Identity To Marginalised Sections Of Society: Top Quotes By SC

The Supreme Court on Wednesday declared the Centre's flagship Aadhaar scheme as Constitutionally valid.

The top court's five-judge Constitution bench said Aadhaar means unique and it is better to be unique than being best. The first of the three judgements was pronounced by Justice A K Sikri.

Below are the top quotes from the Supreme Court

• It is better to be unique than being best; Aadhaar means Unique
• Attack on Aadhaar by petitioners is based on violation of rights, will lead to a surveillance State
• SC says there has been minimal demographic and biometric data collected by UIDAI for Aadhaar enrolment
• There is no possibility of obtaining a duplicate Aadhaar card
• Unique identification proof also empowers and gives identity to marginalised sections of society
• The concept of human dignity has been enlarged in the judgement
• There is sufficient defence mechanism for authentication in Aadhaar scheme
• Robust data protection regime has to be brought in place as early as possible
• Education has taken us from thumb impression to signature, now technology has taken us from signature to thumb impression