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Don’t create panic on Aadhaar linking: SC to banks, telcos

HIGHLIGHTS A bench of Justices A K Sikri and Ashok Bhushan said even judges are not spared from such messages. It ordered telcos and banks not to create panic among people and asked them to specify that the deadline for Aadhaar-bank account linkage is Dec 31 and Feb 6 for mobile phones. NEW DELHI: The  Supreme Court  eased on Friday the pressure mounted by banks and telecom companies on customers through frequent messages to link Aadhaar with bank accounts and mobile phone numbers and ordered that they intimate people about the deadline for doing so. A bench of Justices A K Sikri and Ashok Bhushan said even judges are not spared from such messages, which the petitioners termed as part of coercion to link Aadhaar with bank accounts and mobile phones. The bench ordered telcos and banks not to create panic among people and asked them to specify in the messages that the deadline for Aadhaar-bank account linkage is December 31 and February 6 for mobile phones. Pet...