AADHAAR RELATED ARTICLES: 12905 - Fraudulent transactions: Fazilka man held for duping retired IAS officer of Rs 50,000

In 2009, I became extremely concerned with the concept of Unique Identity for various reasons. Connected with many like minded highly educated people who were all concerned.

On 18th May 2010, I started this Blog to capture anything and everything I came across on the topic. This blog with its million hits is a testament to my concerns about loss of privacy and fear of the ID being misused and possible Criminal activities it could lead to.

In 2017 the Supreme Court of India gave its verdict after one of the longest hearings on any issue. I did my bit and appealed to the Supreme Court Judges too through an On Line Petition.

In 2019 the Aadhaar Legislation has been revised and passed by the two houses of the Parliament of India making it Legal. I am no Legal Eagle so my Opinion carries no weight except with people opposed to the very concept.

In 2019, this Blog now just captures on a Daily Basis list of Articles Published on anything to do with Aadhaar as obtained from Daily Google Searches and nothing more. Cannot burn the midnight candle any longer.

"In Matters of Conscience, the Law of Majority has no place"- Mahatma Gandhi

Ram Krishnaswamy

Sydney, Australia.

Aadhaar

The UIDAI has taken two successive governments in India and the entire world for a ride. It identifies nothing. It is not unique. The entire UID data has never been verified and audited. The UID cannot be used for governance, financial databases or anything. It’s use is the biggest threat to national security since independence. – Anupam Saraph 2018

When I opposed Aadhaar in 2010 , I was called a BJP stooge. In 2016 I am still opposing Aadhaar for the same reasons and I am told I am a Congress die hard. No one wants to see why I oppose Aadhaar as it is too difficult. Plus Aadhaar is FREE so why not get one ? Ram Krishnaswamy

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.-Mahatma Gandhi

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.Mahatma Gandhi

“The invasion of privacy is of no consequence because privacy is not a fundamental right and has no meaning under Article 21. The right to privacy is not a guaranteed under the constitution, because privacy is not a fundamental right.” Article 21 of the Indian constitution refers to the right to life and liberty -Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi

“There is merit in the complaints. You are unwittingly allowing snooping, harassment and commercial exploitation. The information about an individual obtained by the UIDAI while issuing an Aadhaar card shall not be used for any other purpose, save as above, except as may be directed by a court for the purpose of criminal investigation.”-A three judge bench headed by Justice J Chelameswar said in an interim order.

Legal scholar Usha Ramanathan describes UID as an inverse of sunshine laws like the Right to Information. While the RTI makes the state transparent to the citizen, the UID does the inverse: it makes the citizen transparent to the state, she says.

Good idea gone bad
I have written earlier that UID/Aadhaar was a poorly designed, unreliable and expensive solution to the really good idea of providing national identification for over a billion Indians. My petition contends that UID in its current form violates the right to privacy of a citizen, guaranteed under Article 21 of the Constitution. This is because sensitive biometric and demographic information of citizens are with enrolment agencies, registrars and sub-registrars who have no legal liability for any misuse of this data. This petition has opened up the larger discussion on privacy rights for Indians. The current Article 21 interpretation by the Supreme Court was done decades ago, before the advent of internet and today’s technology and all the new privacy challenges that have arisen as a consequence.

Rajeev Chandrasekhar, MP Rajya Sabha

“What is Aadhaar? There is enormous confusion. That Aadhaar will identify people who are entitled for subsidy. No. Aadhaar doesn’t determine who is eligible and who isn’t,” Jairam Ramesh

But Aadhaar has been mythologised during the previous government by its creators into some technology super force that will transform governance in a miraculous manner. I even read an article recently that compared Aadhaar to some revolution and quoted a 1930s historian, Will Durant.Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Rajya Sabha MP

“I know you will say that it is not mandatory. But, it is compulsorily mandatorily voluntary,” Jairam Ramesh, Rajya Saba April 2017.

August 24, 2017: The nine-judge Constitution Bench rules that right to privacy is “intrinsic to life and liberty”and is inherently protected under the various fundamental freedoms enshrined under Part III of the Indian Constitution

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the World; indeed it's the only thing that ever has"

“Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.” -Edward Snowden

In the Supreme Court, Meenakshi Arora, one of the senior counsel in the case, compared it to living under a general, perpetual, nation-wide criminal warrant.

Had never thought of it that way, but living in the Aadhaar universe is like living in a prison. All of us are treated like criminals with barely any rights or recourse and gatekeepers have absolute power on you and your life.

Announcing the launch of the # BreakAadhaarChainscampaign, culminating with events in multiple cities on 12th Jan. This is the last opportunity to make your voice heard before the Supreme Court hearings start on 17th Jan 2018. In collaboration with @no2uidand@rozi_roti.

UIDAI's security seems to be founded on four time tested pillars of security idiocy

1) Denial

2) Issue fiats and point finger

3) Shoot messenger

4) Bury head in sand.

God Save India

Wednesday, February 28, 2018

12905 - Fraudulent transactions: Fazilka man held for duping retired IAS officer of Rs 50,000 - Hindustan Times

Fraudulent transactions: Fazilka man held for duping retired IAS officer of Rs 50,000

Suresh Kumar alias Mithu Kumar, a resident of Fazilka in Punjab is at present on two-day police remand for cheating RK Taneja, a retired IAS officer of Haryana cadre living in Sector 7.

PUNJAB Updated: Feb 25, 2018 15:57 Ist

HT Correspondent

Hindustan Times, Chandigarh

The cyber cell of Chandigarh police have arrested a man from Fazilka in Punjab for defrauding a retired civil servant of about Rs 49,977. The accused made a phone call to the victim and posed as an official from his bank to access his account details and OTP (verification) number to withdraw the money.

Suresh Kumar alias Mithu Kumar, a resident of Fazilka in Punjab is at present on two-day police remand for cheating RK Taneja, a retired IAS officer of Haryana cadre living in Sector 7.

Interrogations revealed that Suresh Kumar and his accomplices Suraj, Rahul and Sonu, all from Bihar, cheated people by making phone calls, asking for their account details and withdrawing cash through online transactions. He told the police that his accomplices then used to transfer the withdrawn amount to his digital wallet. After deducting his commission Suresh would deposit the cash in their accounts.

The police have procured Suresh’s remand for recovery of his mobile phone and to arrest his accomplices.

The case

Police on October 17 registered a case on Taneja’s complaint that Rs 49,977 had been fraudulently withdrawn from his account. Taneja had received a phone call in July with the caller identifying himself as the employee of the bank he had an account in and asking for his account details to link his Aadhaar card with the bank account.

Suresh had then used the information to generate the OTP which Taneja received on his mobile phone and shared with the caller who then withdrew the money from the account. A case under section 420 (cheating) and relevant sections of IT act was registered.

The arrest

Police discovered that Rs 9,999 from the money withdrawn from Taneja’s account had been deposited in an Ola wallet account in the name of Rama Kumar.

Using details from the mobile phone police traced the sim card to Suresh Kumar of Fazilka who was then arrested.