HYDERABAD: Task force police busted an
Aadhaar card enrolment-cum-corrections scam and arrested eight offenders from the city. The accused made 7,000 illegal Aadhaar card enrolments/ data changes by uploading forged documents from illegally obtained enrolment officer IDs allotted to Assam.
The arrested accused were identified as T Nitesh Singh, 30, a businessman from Borabanda,
Syed Mustafa
, 28, a businessman from Hakeempet,
Rabbani MA
, 28, employee of a private company in Hakeempet, Md Azhar Shareef, 27, employee of Mustafa from Hakeempet,
Md Sohail
, 23, employee of Nitesh from Borabanda,
Sk Jahangir Pasha
, 37, a private worker from Miyapur, Md Anwaruddin, 34, a businessman from Mylardevpally and Md Ahmed, 20, a private worker from Mylardevpally.
Another key accused, Pavan, 35, employee of Aadhaar enrolment agency in Assam is absconding. According to Hyderabad police commissioner Anjani Kumar, in October 2021, Nitesh Singh obtained six login IDs from Pavan to make Aadhaar card enrolments and also make corrections in the Aadhaar cards by paying him Rs 90,000. Nitesh used one ID for Aadhaar enrolments and sold five IDs to Mustafa, Jahangir and Anwaruddin to carry out corrections in Aadhaar cards and new enrolments.
Put together, the arrested accused from the city carried out 7,000 new enrolments and corrections in a span of two months by charging Rs 2,000 to Rs 3,000 from each client. Pavan, who supplied the six IDs which are allotted to Assam by UIDAI, gets Rs 3,000 per day as commission from the citybased accused, said a task force official.
Based on the complaint given by the UIDAI, police registered two cases against the accused at Banjara Hills and Golconda police stations under relevant sections of the IPC, IT Act and Aadhaar Act, 2016. The accused, along with the seized property, were handed over to Golconda police for further probe.
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