Yet another PIL filed against Aadhar

Plea accepted by SC, has made RBI and Election Commission a party

Another public interest litigation has been filed has in a Kerala High Court questioning the government's move to link various welfare payments such as cooking gas subsidy with the unique identity or Aadhaar number.

The petition, which has been accepted by the Supreme Court today, has also made the Reserve Bank of India and Election Commission a party. Court, has reportedly, asked the government and the central bank and election commission to respond to it.

This comes right after a retired judge of the Karnataka high court, K S Puttaswamy, moved the Supreme Court, alleging the direct benefits scheme was being enforced all over the country without Aadhaar getting Parliamentary sanction.

The Supreme Court passed an interim order on September 23, stating that noone should suffer due to unavailability of Aadhaar.

Later, oil marketing companies filed a petition seeking a review of the order, which was joined by several parties from both sides including the UID authority of India. The matter is yet to come up for a hearing.