Chennai: The Madras High Court on Wednesday adjourned the hearing of a plea seeking linking of Aadhaar with social media accounts to ensure easy detection of online fraud and cybercrime to September 19.
Opposing the submission, Advocate General Vijay Narayan contended that there was no impediment for the high court to continue with the hearing as the apex court had made it clear that high courts could continue hearing such pleas, though it should not pass any final order.
The bench made oral observations, saying further hearings in the case would be useless if the apex court decided to transfer all such cases.
The Supreme Court sought the responses of the Centre, Google, WhatsApp, Twitter, YouTube and others on Tuesday on Facebook Inc's plea seeking transfer of the pending cases related to linking of social media accounts with Aadhaar in different high courts to the apex court.
The top court agreed to hear Facebook's plea and sought the responses of the Centre and the social media platforms by September 13.
A bench of justices Deepak Gupta and Aniruddha Bose said the hearing in two cases pending before the Madras High Court, seeking linkage of social media profiles of users with Aadhaar, should continue but no final orders would be passed.
"Notice be issued to the unserved respondents through e-mail at their e-mail addresses returnable on September 13, 2019. In the meantime, hearing before the Madras High Court may go on but no effective order be passed till further orders," the apex court bench said.