Petitioners told the Supreme Court that the mandatory SIM registration restricts their constitutional right to freedom of speech and their right against unreasonable searches and seizures, as well as the right to substantive due process. READ:
The purpose of the law is to deter illegal acts using SMS technology and help law enforcers in tracking purported criminals.
The SIM Card Registration Act “conditions the exercise of speech through the use of SIM cards to a mandatory disclosure of a specific combination of information that is supposed to tie every SIM card to a specific person.” Petitioners said the law “tramples upon zones of privacy and sweeps away all protections guaranteed by the Constitution against unreasonable searches and seizures.”
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