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Aadhaar Card Update: Today, every Aadhaar card is connected to all our small and big needs. From buying a SIM card to opening a bank account, an Aadhaar card is considered an important document. But the Supreme Court made it clear in one of its orders that Aadhaar can only be used as an identity proof and it is not a document to prove your age.

Aadhaar will not work here.

The Supreme Court canceled the order of the Punjab and Haryana High Court in which an Aadhaar card was accepted to determine the age of a person who lost his life in a road accident for giving compensation.

The bench of Justice Sanjay Karol and Justice Ujjal Bhuiyan said that the age of the deceased should be calculated 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.

UIDAI also did not accept age certificate

The bench noted, "We found that the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), through its Circular No. 8/2023, about 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."

What is the whole matter?

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 based on his school leaving certificate. The apex court was hearing an appeal filed by the relatives of a person who died in a road accident in 2015. 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 MACT had wrongly applied the age multiplier while determining the compensation.

The High Court had relied on the deceased's Aadhaar card and estimated his age to be 47 years. The family argued that the High Court had made a mistake in determining the age of the deceased based on Aadhaar Card because if his age is calculated according to his school leaving certificate, then his age at the time of death was 45 years.