UIDAI registers FIR against journalist over Aadhaar data breach report

January 07, 2018 17:12

An FIR was registered by deputy director of the Unique Identification Authority of India against The Tribune newspaper and its reporter, Rachna Khaira, for a report published earlier this week on how demographic data associated with Aadhaar numbers was being sold by anonymous sellers over WhatsApp for just Rs 500.

The FIR also names Anil Kumar, Sunil Kumar and Raj, all of whom were mentioned in The Tribune report as people Khaira contacted in the course of her reporting.

The FIR was lodged with the Crime Branchs cyber cell under IPC Sections 419 (punishment for cheating by impersonation), 420 (cheating), 468 (forgery) and 471 (using as genuine a forged document), as well Section 66 of the IT Act and Section 36/37 of the Aadhaar Act.

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