A retired High Court judge, social activists, politicians and some state governments were involved in the legal battle over the constitutional validity of the Centre's flagship scheme -- Aadhaar.
Justice K S Puttaswamy, 92, a retired judge of the Karnataka High Court was the first and the lead petitioner to challenge the validity of the law and he took the service of senior advocate Shyam Divan to press his arguments that the scheme hits upon the right to privacy.
Among the 31 petitioners were senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh, veteran