The Centre today told the Supreme Court that there is no question of extending the June 30 deadline for making Aadhaar mandatory for availing benefits of various social welfare schemes.
Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi said, the idea behind making Aadhaar mandatory for welfare schemes was that the benefit should not go to what he called, ghosts as was noticed in schemes like the public distribution system.
He also raised preliminary objection to the plea seeking interim relief and challenging various notifications issued by the Centre. Mr. Rohatgi told a bench, comprising Justices A M Khanwilkar and Navin Sinha, that this matter should be listed for hearing before a five-judge constitution bench.
He said that earlier, some pleas seeking identical interim reliefs were also filed and those matters were pending before the apex court.
The bench said it would be appropriate to hear all these pleas seeking interim relief together to avoid multiplicity and fixed the matter for hearing on June 27.
