TNN | May 12, 2012, 05.36AM IST
HYDERABAD: The noose seems to be tightening around the 'errant' employees of Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services (IL&FS) Limited with cops finding clinching evidence of their involvement in the Aadhaar card registration fraud.
As part of the probe, a special team of South Zone police scrutinized the application forms pertaining to the 870 Aadhaar card enrollments done in Biometric Exception (those without fingers and eyes) category in Old City. However, when it came to light that none of the individuals enrolled in this category was found at the specified addresses, the sleuths were forced to check the supporting documents at the Hewlett Packard office at Madhapur where Aadhaar applications are being digitized.
Upon verification, the cops found that in most of these application forms, though the ration card was mentioned as both proof of identity and proof of residential address, a photocopy of the same was not attached with the application. "This point clearly proves that the entries have been made in a fraudulent manner," said an investigating officer.
Initially, UIDAI informed the state government that Mohammed Ali of Vattepally in Falaknuma, who has been working as the data entry operator with the enrollment agency IL&FS, has done around 30,000 enrollments in Old City in just six months, which include the 870 entries. However, IL&FS informed the police that Ali was terminated from service in September 2011, which made it clear that somebody else has been using his login details to continue the enrollment process after him.
When police asked IL&FS to give a list of operators who used Ali's login to do the enrollment work in 20 centres of Old City, the agency came up with a name Mujeeb. After two weeks of investigation, police were sure that the fraud has been executed right under the supervision of several IL&FS office staff. So, apart from Ali and other operators, several supervisory staff of IL&FS posted in Hyderabad are likely to get arrested, said an investigating official of Charminar police station.
Meanwhile, UIDAI is yet to inform the police about how many of these 30,000 cards have already been dispatched and how many of them have been delivered or returned. "Once the investigation is over, appropriate action will be taken against all the accused," a senior UIDAI officer said.