GPay Has No Access To Aadhaar Database: Google To High Court
The top court docket indexed the topic for additional listening to on October 22 (Representational)
New Delhi:
Google India Virtual Services and products Pvt Ltd on Monday instructed the Delhi Top Courtroom that it has no get right of entry to to the Aadhaar database and does no longer require this sort of knowledge for running its Google Pay (GPay) cellular app.
The submission was once made in an extra affidavit positioned sooner than a bench of Leader Justice DN Patel and Justice Prateek Jalan by way of Google in line with an allegation, in an ongoing public passion litigation, that the Nationwide Cost Company of India (NPCI) granted GPay get right of entry to to the BHIM Aadhaar platform with out wisdom of the Distinctive Id Authority of India (UIDAI).
“The Respondent 2 (GPay) is fully unconnected to BHIM AADHAAR which is a separate product.
“It’s additional submitted that Google Pay does no longer require person”s Aadhar main points, in any method by any means and subsequently, neither does it require to get right of entry to the Aadhaar database nor does it have get right of entry to to the Aadhaar database,” Google has mentioned in its affidavit.
The allegation, in keeping with Google’s affidavit, was once made by way of monetary economist Abhijit Mishra within the rejoinder filed by way of him in his PIL claiming that GPay was once facilitating monetary transactions with out the needful authorisation from RBI.
The rejoinder by way of Mr Mishra was once filed in line with the affidavit filed by way of the Reserve Financial institution of India (RBI) in his petition.
RBI in its affidavit had contended that GPay was once a 3rd birthday celebration app supplier (TPAP) and does no longer perform any cost methods.
Due to this fact, its operations aren’t in violation of the Cost and Agreement Device Act of 2007, RBI had mentioned.
Google had previous filed a testimony in line with the PIL and had said therein that its GPay app does no longer require RBI authorisation as it isn’t a cost device operator (PSO) however a 3rd birthday celebration software supplier.
Mr Mishra, within the petition filed thru suggest Payal Bahl, has claimed that GPay was once appearing as a bills device supplier in violation of the Bills and Settlements Act because it has no legitimate authorisation from the central financial institution of the rustic to hold out such purposes.
The top court docket indexed the topic for additional listening to on October 22.
