Text of SC Judgment on Aadhaar Card Linkage With PAN

In these three writ petitions filed by the petitioners, who claim themselves to be pubic spirited persons, challenge is laid to the constitutional validity of Section 139AA of the Income Tax Act, 1961 (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Act’), which provision has been inserted by the amendment to the said Act vide Finance Act, 2017. Section 139AA of the Act reads as under: “Quoting of Aadhaar number. – (1) Every person who is eligible to obtain Aadhaar number shall, on or after the 1st day of July, 2017, quote Aadhaar number– (i) in the application form for allotment of permanent accoun...