The evolution of a dictatorship.

It gets better and better. Insisting that the government had the right to force citizens to provide fingerprints and iris scans for Aadhaar card, the Attorney General, Mukul Rohatgi argued in front of the Supreme Court that Indians do not have any right over their own bodies. "There is no absolute right over the body," he said. "If such a right existed then committing suicide would have been permitted and people and would have been allowed to do whatever they wanted to do with their bodies. The right not to have bodily intrusion is not absolute, and the life of a person can also be taken away by following due procedure of law. People cannot commit suicide or take drugs." This is the top lawyer for the government, who is unaware that suicide was decriminalized by the parliament in March of this year in the Mental Health Bill. Taking drugs or driving while drunk are criminal acts, which might hurt other people. As for the death penalty, the Supreme Court observes a doctrine of 'Rarest of Rare' crime, which means that the crime, meaning murder, would have been particularly gruesome and abhorrent. Advocate for petitioners made the point that Aadhaar Act is not mandatory. In fact, the Supreme Court has ordered that Aadhaar cannot be made mandatory for receiving benefits. If Aadhaar is not mandatory for those who are receiving handouts from the government why it should be so for filing tax returns or for flying is a mystery. But that is not all. If we have no right over our bodies there is nothing to stop the government from removing a kidney by force because a politician or civil servant needs one. After all, donating one kidney is not going to kill a person. In 2015, the same Attorney General argued that Indians have no right to privacy. Animals have no concept of privacy. It is purely a human need, which makes us human. By arguing that we do not have a right to privacy he is saying that his countrymen and women are animals. Is there no cesspit that this man will not sink into, for money? Then there is the big lie. The government insists that the Aadhaar database is completely secure. Aadhaar details of 135 million people, along with bank details and postal account details were leaked online. There is more. A Microsoft app can verify Aadhaar details of a person, said an article in Bloomberg. Legal researcher, Usha Ramanathan said that US organizations like L-1 Identity Solutions, open-source document database MongodB, and consulting firms Accenture and Ernst and Young are all holding our data. The government means the Prime Minister, who has made himself a crusader against corruption. Yet this same man is using all slimy tactics not to pass the Lokpal Bill, which will make politicians and civil servants accountable. He is going to amend the Right to Information Act so that death of the applicant will mean immediate withdrawal of the application. This is an invitation for criminals to kill activists. Dictators always start with a moral crusade.