‘Safeguard essential’: Supreme Court on withholding children’s Aadhaar details under APAAR scheme

3 min readNew DelhiJul 26, 2026 05:03 AM IST CBSE and schools are encouraging students to create APAAR IDs. (Image: AI generated)THE Supreme Court has asked the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) to implement on a pan-India basis the Orissa High Court’s direction that parents be provided with the option to refuse consent to sharing Aadhaar details of their children for creation of Automated Permanent Academic Account Registry (APAAR) ID or to opt out of the scheme. A bench of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana also directed that any personal information collected pursuant to the APAAR Scheme should not be disclosed or shared with any private entity or third party except in accordance with law.The July 20 order which was made available on Sa