The Supreme Court directed the Centre on 24 March 2014 to withdraw the instruction issued by centre for making Aadhaar card mandatory for citizens to benefit government services.
A Bench of Justices B S Chauhan and J Chelameswar directed that if there are any instructions that Aadhaar is mandatory, it should be withdrawn immediately. The judgement was given in light of Supreme Court receiving lot of letters which say that Aadhaar card is mandatory in spite of court orders.
Background
Earlier, in September 2013 Supreme Court in its interim order said that Aadhaar card is not made mandatory for the people for availing government services and nobody should be deprived of such facilities for want of the card.
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