The Delhi High Court reportedly has ordered the Income Tax Department to allow lawyers to file tax returns without their details of Aadhaar card. Lawyers Mukul Talwar and Vrinda Grover has filed a petition in the High Court to allow lawyers to file returns without Aadhaar Card, provided that they are duly filed before June 30.
The Delhi High Court reportedly has ordered the Income Tax Department to allow lawyers to file tax returns without their details of Aadhaar card. Lawyers Mukul Talwar and Vrinda Grover has filed a petition in the High Court to allow lawyers to file returns without Aadhaar Card, provided that they are duly filed before June 30.
The Division Bench has issued notice to the Revenue Department, seeking its response to the petition.
At present, the deadline for linking Aadhaar with PAN card has ben extended till June 30. The next hearing of the matter would be on May 14.
Meanwhile, the Centre earlier this month had justified the Aadhaar Act in the Supreme Court, saying it was a ‘fair and reasonable law’ which complied with the tests prescribed by the historic verdict on the right to privacy.
A nine-judge constitution bench, on August 24 last year, had declared the right to privacy as a fundamental right and termed it as an intrinsic part of right to life and personal liberty under Article 21 of the Constitution.
The Centre referred to the verdict and said the reasonable restrictions, which are applicable on right to life, would also govern the right to privacy.
It told a five-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, which is examining the validity of Aadhaar scheme and its enabling 2016 law, that the privacy verdict provided that State can seek certain information if there is a law, a legitimate state interest and the proportionality doctrine to weigh citizens' privacy and the State's interests.
"The lead (privacy) judgment of Justice D Y Chandrachud says that existence of law, legitimate state interest, and proportionality, are the tests to be applied to judge the privacy violation, if any," Attorney General K K Venugopal told the bench which also comprised Justices A K Sikri, A M Khanwilkar, D Y Chandrachud and Ashok Bhushan.
"The Aadhaar Act meets the standards and has adequate safeguards. The Aadhaar Act is a just, fair, and reasonable law. It is in pursuance of a larger public interest, including preventing dissipation of social welfare benefits, prevention of black money and money laundering...," he said, adding that these were all "legitimate State interests".
The Aadhaar scheme also satisfies the test of proportionality by showing a rational nexus between the means and the goal, he said, adding that all subsidies were part of right to life with dignity and would prevail over the right to privacy.
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