TNN | May 1, 2012, 01.09AM IST
HYDERABAD: Did Aadhaar enrollment centre staff carry out registrations in haste to achieve 100% target in the city? Preliminary investigation by probe agencies seems to suggest so.
Probing into the 30,000 Aadhaar card enrollments done in a span of just six months by Mohammed Ali, a data entry supervisor of Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services (IL&FS) Limited from the Old City, the Charminar police found that names of citizens were not in full.
Police have randomly selected 60 addressees from the 870 enrollments done in Biometric Exception category by the data supervisor and visited all the locations.
"All the addresses were vague and none of the applicants stayed at the given residential address," a Charminar police officer said.
Police also discovered that full names were not registered in majority of cases.
"Most of the names are like Ali, Subhan, Rasheed, Raju and there were no surnames or middle names," a civil supplies department source said. After looking at these details, the probe agencies now suspect that just to achieve the target by March 2012, the operators might have done the fake registrations.
To support the argument, an investigating official pointed out the issue of thousands of Aadhaar cards being returned to the government as addressees were staying at the mentioned address.
"We are yet to ascertain how many cards registered using Mohammed Ali's login have been dispatched. There is a possibility of some getting into wrong hands, but the rate of rapid registration also indicates pressure to achieve enrollment target," a source said.
So far, 5.35 crore Aadhaar card enrollments, including 47 lakh in the capital, have been done in the state during the first phase. The Adhaar card phase II was supposed to be launched in April, but the process has not yet started.
Police are yet to get details of people who have done the fake registrations using Mohammed Ali's login details and they are in contact with IL&FS senior staff and UIDAI to get the information.