New Delhi, March 19 -- The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Tuesday said that it will set the ball rolling on the process of linking the Aadhaar data of electors with the Elector Photo Identification Card (EPIC) database, in an apparent bid to weed out the problem of duplicate EPICs.

But the commission said that the operation will be done "in line with" the Supreme Court's judgement of 2023, when the poll body had told the top court that linking Aadhaar with EPICs was not mandatory.

"...It was decided that the linking of EPIC with Aadhaar will be done only as per the provisions of Article 326 (eligible people entitled to be registered as an elector) of the Constitution, (under) Representation of People's Act and in line with Suprem...