Aadhaar Card: The Supreme Court has cancelled the order of the Punjab and Haryana High Court in which the Aadhar card was accepted to determine the age of a person who lost his life in a road accident for giving compensation.
The Aadhar card is undoubtedly a very important document, but when it comes to determining age in a particular situation, then the Aadhar card is not a valid document for that. The Supreme Court has given this decision during the hearing of a case. According to the news of Bhasha, in fact, the Supreme Court on Thursday cancelled the order of the Punjab and Haryana High Court in which the Aadhar card was accepted to determine the age of a person who lost his life in a road accident for giving compensation.
This is not proof of date of birth
According to the news, the bench of Justice Sanjay Karol and Justice Ujjal Bhuiyan said that the age of the deceased should be determined from the date of birth mentioned in the school leaving certificate under Section 94 of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015. The bench noted that we found that the Unique Identification Authority of India, vide its Circular No. 8/2023, in reference to an Office Memorandum issued by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology dated December 20, 2018, has stated that an Aadhaar card can be used to establish identity but it is not a proof of date of birth.
This is how age was calculated
The Supreme Court accepted the argument of the claimant-appellants and upheld the decision of the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT), which had calculated the age of the deceased on the basis of his school leaving certificate. The apex court was hearing an appeal filed by the family of a person who died in a road accident in 2015. The MACT, Rohtak, had awarded a compensation of Rs 19.35 lakh which was reduced by the High Court to Rs 9.22 lakh after observing that the MACT had wrongly applied the age multiplier while determining the compensation.
The High Court had relied on the deceased’s Aadhaar card to determine his age as 47 years. The family argued that the High Court had erred in determining the age of the deceased on the basis of the Aadhaar card because if his age is calculated as per his school leaving certificate, he was 45 years old at the time of his death.
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