The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to entertain an application seeking to prohibit the use of the Aadhaar card for voter identity verification during the ongoing SIR drive. The court asked the petitioner, Ashwini Upadhyaya, to approach the Centre with his complaint that fake Aadhaar cards were being issued to Bangladeshis and Rohingya immigrants in the border states, particularly Bengal. The court, however, made it clear that the Aadhaar cannot be furnished as proof of citizenship. “If Aadhaar is fraudulently procured on an industrial scale, it has to be statutorily regulated. The bench made the oral observation after Upadhyaya opposed the court’s reiteration of its September 2025 direction, in its order on Tuesday relating to the Bengal SIR, that the Aadhaar card be accepted as proof of identity during the SIR verification process.

Source: The Telegraph February 25, 2026 04:57 UTC