Aadhaar cards likely to be cancelled in Old Hyderabad
Mahesh
Buddi,
TNN | May 5, 2012, 01.07AM IST
HYDERABAD: Aadhaar
card registrations done by Infrastructure
Leasing & Financial
Services (IL&FS) Ltd in Old City
are likely to be cancelled.
The initial probe has revealed that IL&FS staff has indulged in indiscriminate fake enrolments perhaps to meet project deadlines so much so that probe agencies are now unsure how many of these fake cards have already been dispatched.
What has further complicated the matter is the non-availability of information on the same with the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) since the data was never supplied to it.
As part of the probe, police have grilled IL&FS data-entry supervisor Mohd Ali using whose login ID 30,000 Aadhaar card registrations were accomplished in little over six months from the 17 enrolment centres in Old City.
Ali confessed to Charminar police that he was sacked from the job in September 2011 and, at the time of leaving, had surrendered his login and password details to his supervisors.
The company has confirmed to police that Ali's services were indeed terminated in September 2011 and conceded that his login was used for enrolments made by their staff at the said 17 centres.
During interrogation, Ali told police that he was offered an additional amount of Rs 5,000 per month by his employers for letting others use his login details. Data provided by IL&FS CEO and former IAS officer RCM Reddy reveals that each of the 17 operators using Ali's ID had notched up 300 enrolments in a single day.
"Surprisingly, some registrations were found to have done after midnight when the enrolment centres were shut. We suspect that the operators were asked to quickly finish enrolment work and might even have been offered incentives to do so. That might have forced them to carry out dubious registrations," said a civil supplies department source.
RCM Reddy, a Manipur-Tripura cadre IAS officer, has personally arrived here to talk to investigating officials.
The initial probe has revealed that IL&FS staff has indulged in indiscriminate fake enrolments perhaps to meet project deadlines so much so that probe agencies are now unsure how many of these fake cards have already been dispatched.
What has further complicated the matter is the non-availability of information on the same with the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) since the data was never supplied to it.
As part of the probe, police have grilled IL&FS data-entry supervisor Mohd Ali using whose login ID 30,000 Aadhaar card registrations were accomplished in little over six months from the 17 enrolment centres in Old City.
Ali confessed to Charminar police that he was sacked from the job in September 2011 and, at the time of leaving, had surrendered his login and password details to his supervisors.
The company has confirmed to police that Ali's services were indeed terminated in September 2011 and conceded that his login was used for enrolments made by their staff at the said 17 centres.
During interrogation, Ali told police that he was offered an additional amount of Rs 5,000 per month by his employers for letting others use his login details. Data provided by IL&FS CEO and former IAS officer RCM Reddy reveals that each of the 17 operators using Ali's ID had notched up 300 enrolments in a single day.
"Surprisingly, some registrations were found to have done after midnight when the enrolment centres were shut. We suspect that the operators were asked to quickly finish enrolment work and might even have been offered incentives to do so. That might have forced them to carry out dubious registrations," said a civil supplies department source.
RCM Reddy, a Manipur-Tripura cadre IAS officer, has personally arrived here to talk to investigating officials.