Madras HC allows filing of IT return without insistence on Aadhar

Preeti Mohan Vs Union of India (Madras High Court) The petitioner before this Court is a practicing advocate and she has filed this writ petition praying for a direction to the ITO to allow her to file income tax returns for the assessment year 2017-18 either manually or through e-filing facility without insisting for production of an aadhar number/card or enrollment identity as defined under Section 139AA of the Income Tax Act, 1961. The petitioner’s case rests upon the decision of the Hon’ble Supreme Court in the case of Binoy Viswam Vs. Union of India [reported in (2017) 396 IT...