The Supreme Court on Wednesday, while upholding the constitutional validity of Aadhaar, struck down Section 57 of the Aadhaar Act, disallowing private entities from possessing Aadhaar numbers of individuals.
The judgement also barred telecom companies and online wallet services from seeking the unique identity number of consumers.
"We will be sitting in the coming days with the Aadhaar authorities and the TSPs (telecom service providers) to make sure we are in complete compliance with the Supreme Court order," Sundararajan told reporters.
The department would also take legal advice to understand how to go ahead in terms of compliance with the judgement, she added.
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