This has meant three rejections of his application to be enrolled on the Aadhaar platform. Why does a citizen, affected with 83 per cent cerebral palsy, have to come to the court?" Nupur's counsel and senior lawyer, Jayanta Narayan Chatterjee, told the court that the Aadhaar Act had a special provision for people with disabilities. The judge then asked the Centre to include in its reply whether this software had been made available in Bengal.Chatterjee said Sanat went to an Aadhaar enrolment centre first in January 2016. He again went to the centre in August 2016 and again in January 2017 but Sanat's applications were rejected each time.

Source: Times of India November 10, 2017 00:22 UTC