Lucknow, January 27: The Allahabad Court in January 9 verdict which was made public on Friday, ruled that Aadhar card details should not be considered as the conclusive proof during an investigation into a criminal case. The Lucknow bench of the court added that an Aadhaar card was a document that provided a conclusive link between the cardholder's photograph, his/her fingerprints and iris scan with a unique identification number. How to Link Aadhaar Card to PAN Card in Easy Steps: Know Online and Offline Ways to Link PAN Number and Aadhaar Number.

The bench of justices Ajai Lamba and Rajeev Singh said that details of Aadhar card could not consider conclusive proof under the Evidence Act. The court’s ruling came while hearing a writ petition of a woman challenging an FIR filed by his mother about her kidnapping with Sujauli police station in Bahraich. In the FIR, the mother claimed that her daughter was minor and was abducted by a man and his relatives. Benefits of Aadhaar Card: UIDAI Biometrics Leads to Track UP PDS Fraudsters Involved in Distribution of Ration.

In the petition, the woman claimed that she was a major and married on her own will and alleged that her mother lodged a false FIR. On the intervention of the High Court, the police investigated the case and gave a clean chit to the woman’s husband and her in-laws. However, during the hearing, the court took note of the date of birth of both the women and her husband mentioned on their aadhar cards and found that both have the same date of birth. Date of birth of the woman according to her aadhar card was January 1, 1999, while her husband’s date of birth was January 1, 1997. Aadhaar Card Compulsory to Buy Mysore Silk Sari! Karnataka Government Makes UIDAI Mandatory at KSIC Stores.

The court asked UIDAI Lucknow regional office deputy director Jasmine to file an affidavit regarding this. In the affidavit, she said that is only proof that a person obtaining subsidy and if a resident does not have a valid date of birth document then it is recorded on the basis of the date declared and the year of date of birth is calculated approximately according to the age mentioned by a person, and it is taken as January 1 of that calendar year. After which the court ruled that details mentioned on the Aadhaar card cannot be taken as conclusive proof.

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