From Our Bureau
NEW DELHI: You cannot register on the CoWIN portal for the Covid vaccination without Aadhaar number, but the Centre told the Supreme Court on Monday that Aadhaar is not mandatory.
It said one can registered with the help of one of the nine identity documents and produce them at the time of vaccination and these included passport, driving licence, PAN card, voter’s card or ration card.
A Bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud and Surya Kant accordingly disposed of a PIL by Shddharth Shankar Sharma of Kothrud, Pune district. It had issue notice to the Centre on the PIL.
“Counsel for Union submits that about 87 lakh people without ID cards have been vaccinated. The grievance of the petitioner that he was denied vaccination for non production of Aadhaar card has also been dealt in the affidavit. The Health ministry addressed a letter to Principal Secretary, Health in Maharashtra to take action against the concerned private vaccination centre which denied vaccination to the petitioner despite production of valid passport ID. The grievance of the petitioner is duly met. All concerned authorities to act in accordance with the policy of the government,” the Court said in its order.
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