Supreme Court upholds linking Aadhaar with PAN

Those without it exempted for now

The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that the Aadhaar card was not mandatory for filing income-tax (I-T) returns for 2017-18. But all Aadhaar cardholders must link the unique identity number with the permanent account number (PAN), it added.

The court did not go into the privacy issue as it has been referred to a Constitution Bench, which will rule on the validity of the scheme. 

The order was passed by a Bench consisting of Justice A K Sikri and Justice Ashok Bhushan, at a special sitting during the ongoing summer vacation of the court. They had reserved the judgment on