Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 599 · Decided 30 April 2025
Pragya Prasun & ORS. v. Union of India & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 599 · [2025] 4 S.C.R. 2851
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 289/2024
- Decided
- 30 April 2025
- Bench
- J.B. PARDIWALA, R MAHADEVAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 14, 15, 38; Information Technology Act Section 9, 12; Prevention of Money Laundering Act
Headnote
1. Whether the present digital KYC / e-KYC / video-KYC framework is inaccessible to persons with disabilities? 2. Whether the regulatory authorities (RBI, SEBI, TRAI, PFRDA, IRDAI, DoT) have failed to ensure reasonable accommodations KYC processes? 3. Whether the mandatory requirement of capturing a "live photograph" and conducting a "liveness check" (through blinking, reading text on screen, etc.) is discriminatory and violative of Article 21 read in conjunction with Articles 14, 15 and 38 of the
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