Aadhaar Card can be utilized to ascertain id, however not date of delivery, mentioned the bench. (File)
New Delhi:
The Supreme Courtroom on Thursday put aside an order of the Punjab and Haryana Excessive Courtroom which had accepted an Aadhaar card for figuring out the age of a highway accident sufferer to grant compensation.
A bench comprising Justices Sanjay Karol and Ujjal Bhuyan, subsequently, mentioned the age of the deceased needed to be decided from the date of delivery talked about within the college leaving certificates underneath Part 94 of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Safety of Kids) Act, 2015.
“We discover that the Distinctive Identification Authority of India, by means of its round quantity 8 of 2023, has said, in reference to an workplace memorandum issued by the Ministry of Electronics and Data Expertise dated December 20, 2018, that an Aadhaar Card, whereas can be utilized to ascertain id, will not be per se proof of date of delivery,” famous the bench.
When it got here to figuring out the age, the highest court docket accepted the rivalry of the claimant-appellants earlier than it and upheld the judgment of the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT) which calculated the deceased’s age on the premise of his college leaving certificates.
The highest court docket was listening to an enchantment filed by kin of a person who died in a highway accident in 2015.
MACT, Rohtak awarded a compensation of Rs 19.35 lakh which was decreased to Rs 9.22 lakh by the excessive court docket after noting the MACT had wrongly utilized the age multiplier whereas figuring out the compensation.
The excessive court docket had relied on the deceased’s Aadhaar card to calculate his age as 47 years.
The household contended the excessive court docket erred in figuring out the deceased’s age on the premise of the Aadhaar card as his age, if calculated as per his college depart certificates, was 45 years on the time of demise.
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