PIL in Supreme Court Seeks to Limit Aadhaar Enrolment to Children Below 6 Years

A Public Interest Litigation has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking to restrict new Aadhaar enrolments to children below the age of six to prevent "infiltrators" from obtaining the document.

The petitioner argued that since nearly 144 crore Aadhaar numbers have already been generated, only newborns should require fresh enrolment.

The plea suggests that adults and adolescents should instead be required to obtain Aadhaar through Sub-Divisional Magistrates or Tehsildars under stringent guidelines.

Further seeking a clear display at all centers stating that Aadhaar is proof of identity only, not of citizenship, and calls for consecutive sentences for those obtaining the document using forged papers.

[Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay v. UOI]