Aadhaar card enrolment: Eight held for forging birth certificates
The gang was also using unauthorised Aadhaar kits with an Assam ID for uploading details of customers in Hyderabad
Hyderabad: The Commissioner’s Task Force West Zone along with the Golconda police arrested eight persons for forging birth certificates for Aadhaar card enrolment.
The arrested accused were identified as T. Nitesh Singh, 30, Syed Mustafa alias Salman, 28, Rabbani M.A., 28, Mohd Azhar Shareef, 27, Mohd Sohail 23, Shaik Jahangir Pasha 37, Mohd Anwaruddin 34, and Mohd Ahmed 20. Another suspect, Pavan, who works at an Aadhaar agency in Assam, is absconding.
The gang was also using unauthorised Aadhaar kits with an Assam ID for uploading details of customers in Hyderabad.
Hyderabad police commissioner Anjani Kumar said six Aadhaar kits, including laptops, iris scanner, fingerprint scanner, cameras, five stamps, Aadhaar card enrolment forms attested by duplicate gazetted officer stamp and signature, forged birth certificates, fake Aadhaar cards and Rs 80,000 was seized from them.
Police said that IDs issued for the states should be used within the state only. But the accused hatched a plan to use the Assam Ids in Hyderabad for Aadhaar enrolments and updation. In October, Nitesh purchased six Aadhaar IDs of Assam from Pavan for Rs 90,000. He kept one with him and sold three to Syed Mustafa for Rs 45,000, one to Shaik Jahangir Pasha for Rs 15,000 and another one to Mohd Anwaruddin for Rs 15,000”, the commissioner said.