Didn’t you see what the Supreme Court said about bank accounts and mobile numbers?

About how making Aadhaar mandatory for them was wrong since it presumed everyone was doing something wrong, that there was no necessity to do this. The court also held that even if the government has a legitimate purpose in mind, there needs to be a balancing test to see whether the benefits outweigh the invasion of privacy, and that there would be less intrusive ways to do this.

The same reasoning would apply to driving licences as well, no? Is the reasoning provided by the Law Minister not a presumption of illegality on everyone’s part? Is there genuinely a problem with people creating duplicate licences with fake names?

And even if there is, why not just have better background checks? Why not just ensure any ID submitted is properly verified? Why should we all have to go through the hassle of linking Aadhaar to our licences? Why should we be linking yet another aspect of our lives to this goddamn number?