SC refuses to stay Madras HC order restraining DMK from using OTP verification
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to stay an interim injunction by the Madras High Court against the use of OTP verification messages for the DMK’s enrolment drive ‘Oraniyil Tamil Nadu’.
A bench of Justices P S Narasimha and A S Chandurkar dismissed the appeal filed by the DMK, saying the issue is sensitive. The whole process is suspect, it said.
“The court has to protect the citizens. Go back to the high court. We are not inclined to interfere in the matter. Dismissed,” the bench said.
Senior advocate P Wilson, appearing for the DMK, submitted that the party was not collecting Aadhaar details.
He contended that the high court had wrongly passed the order as there was no injunction sought in the matter.
“My whole programme has come to a standstill. 1.7 crore members have come and offered thematic. I am doing what other parties like BJP and Aam Aadmi Party are doing. I am not collecting Aadhaar details,” Wilson said.