While hearing a PIL alleging that the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Puducherry unit had misused Aadhaar data during its election campaign, the Madras high court said there appears to be a “serious breach” in how the party conducted itself.
The petitioner Anand, president of the Democratic Youth Federation of India, claimed that the BJP had sent campaign-related SMS messages to Aadhaar-linked mobile numbers but not other numbers. The court found this to be a credible allegation and said that the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) must answer how these user details may not have been adequately protected.
“There appears to be a serious breach by the sixth respondent political party (BJP) in how it conducted its campaign in Puducherry for the forthcoming Assembly elections,” the bench of Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy said on Thursday, according to LiveLaw.
— source thewire.in | 02/Apr/2021