The Supreme Courtroom on Mon said it could hear in a few days a plea challenging the Section of Telecommunication (DoT's) notification on mandatory linking of mobile numbers with Aadhaar.
The problem came up for hearing before a bench of Justices A K Sikri and Ashok Bhushan and the counsel appearing for the petitioner sought adjournment on the floor that senior attorney K T S Tulsi, who argue the case, had not been available. The problem was then set for hearing on November 13.
The new plea has been filed by Tehseen Poonawala seeking direction to quash the DoT notification of March 23 and hold it as "unconstitutional" and "null and void".
It has additionally sought path to the telecom operators to avoid them from implementing this notification and destroy the info currently collected from the clients.
Lately, a bench headed simply by Chief Justice Dipak Misra experienced said a constitution bench will be create and Aadhaar related petitions would appear for hearing before it within the last week of November.
Several petitions difficult the Centre's thing to do Aadhaar card mandatory for availing numerous services and benefits of welfare schemes have already been filed in the apex courtroom.
The Centre had on October 25 told the very best court that the deadline for mandatory linking of Aadhaar to get advantages of government schemes has been extended till March 31, 2018, for individuals who don't have the 12-digit unique biometric identification number and were ready to enrol for it.
The apex court had on February 6 this season asked the Center to set up place within a year a highly effective system to scrutinise the facts of the identity of over 100 crore existing and future mobile telephone consumers.
The court had suggested that the prevailing pre-paid cellular users, who are 90 % of the full total mobile users, could be asked to provide identity details during re-charge as carried out while giving her or him a brand new SIM card.