The Supreme Court has said, it will hear on Monday next week a plea challenging the Department of Telecommunication (DOT's) notification on mandatory linking of mobile numbers with Aadhaar. <br/><br/>The fresh plea seeks direction to quash the DoT notification of 23rd March and hold it as unconstitutional and null and void.<br/><br/>Recently, a bench, headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, had said a constitution bench would be set up and Aadhaar related petitions would come up for hearing before it in the last week of this month.<br/><br/>Several petitions challenging the Centre's move to make Aadhaar card mandatory for availing various services and benefits of welfare schemes have been filed in the apex court.<br/>

The Supreme Court today said it would hear next week a plea challenging the Department of Telecommunication's (DoT) notification on mandatory linking of mobile numbers with Aadhaar. <br/><br/>A bench of Justices A K Sikri and Ashok Bhushan fixed the matter for hearing on November 13. <br/><br/>The fresh plea seeks direction to quash the DoT notification of March 23 and hold it as unconstitutional and null and void. <br/><br/>Recently, a bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra had said that a constitution bench would be set up and Aadhaar related petitions would come up for hearing before it in the last week of November. <br/><br/>Several petitions challenging the Centre's move to make Aadhaar card mandatory for availing various services and benefits of welfare schemes have been filed in the apex court.<br/>