Aadhaar Act and Supreme Court Judgments: Legal Framework in India

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Regarding the legal framework for Aadhaar in India, consider the following statements:

  1. The Aadhaar Act, 2016, allows the government to mandate Aadhaar for citizens to access any benefit or subsidy funded by the Consolidated Fund of India.
  2. The Supreme Court has mandated that Aadhaar metadata can be stored by the government for a maximum period of five years.
  3. The Supreme Court, in the Puttaswamy judgment, declared the Aadhaar scheme unconstitutional in its entirety.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

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