CPI leader Binoy Viswam has moved the Supreme Court, challenging the validity of the recent law making it mandatory to link Aadhaar number with PAN card for filing Income Tax returns from the assessment year 2017-18. Stating that it violates the right to privacy guaranteed under Article 21 of the Constitution, the petitioner also pointed out that in various petitions, the top court had said Aadhaar was purely voluntary. Viswam said he and other citizens, who had refrained from enrolling in the scheme due to apprehensions about infringement of their right to privacy, were being forced to give their consent for Aadhaar.
