The two-judge PIL bench of the Hyderabad High Court, comprising Chief Justice Raghvendra Singh Chauhan and Justice A Abhishek Reddy, on Monday refused to entertain a public interest litigation case against State Bank of India for including reference to the National Population Register as one of the documents required for updation of KYC (know your customer)
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The bench clarified that the offending advertisement contained multiple documents of identification. It reasoned that the updating of KYC was not restricted to the NPR and, therefore, it did not disqualify a citizen who would otherwise be complaining of the same. The bench, therefore, refused to entertain the PIL.