File: Pers/comp-u min eit-adhaar verfn-020818 02 Aug 2017
Sri Ravi Shankar Prasad (
Union Minister for Law,
Justice, Electronics & Information Technology
Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, (Government of
India)
Electronics Niketan, 6, CGO Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi: 110003
Electronics Niketan, 6, CGO Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi: 110003
COMPLAINT: UIDAI-AUTHENTICATION FRAUD
1.
I had learnt from
information in public domain that a project like UIDAI had been tried in the US
of A, UK and Australia and had been given up on two counts- cost and privacy.
But still the previous UPA government had gone ahead and invested thousands of
crores of rupees of tax payer’s money in UIDAI which was then only seen as a
scam on the lines of 2G, Coalgate and Vadragate. Even the BJP had opposed it
tooth and nail then. But horror of horrors, the same party, since its coming to
power in 2014, has been pursuing it more vigorously than its predecessor. And
that, even while many cases are pending in various courts, including the apex
court! Personally, I never needed any certificate from anyone or even any
orders from any court to believe that though the concept is very good, it is
not implementable. This comes from the experience with issue of ration cards
which has not been streamlined even now. The Government of Kerala had even
faced a crisis situation because of its failure to reissue these cards in the
context of Food Security Act. And it was only on 29 Jul 2017 that the local
media reported that 25000 persons, including government employees, had been
removed from the Priority List in just Palakkad district!
2.
With that as
prelude, here is the actual complaint.
3.
I got my Adhaar
card on 24 Apr 2017. And in less than a month I got an e mail addressing me as Ravi Kumar Ojha and
intimating that an adhaar bearing number xxxx xxxx 5222 had been successfully
used to authenticate a transaction involving Idea Cellular Ltd! (the screen
shot of the mail is given as Annxure 1).
Quote begin
Refer
your email of 14 May 2017.
I
am not Ravi Kumar Ojha! Nor have I ever dealt with Idea Cellular Ltd in my
life!
Now
please explain how this mail has been sent to me.
Is
it that Ravi Kumar Ojha's finger prints match mine?
Even
if it was so, how did Ravi Kumar Ojha's adhaar number get linked to this e mail
id?
And
why only to the e mail id and not mobile number provided at the time of
registering for Adhaar?
Quote end
Continued….
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5.
In response I was
asked to provide the following details through an e mail from help@uidai.gov.in of the same date, that is 18 May 2017:
Quote begin
Your
case (20170518000392) has been registered with us. Please find below our
response against your query:
Query
1(Subcase Id :2017051800039201)
We
request you to please confirm if email ID and last four digits of Aadhaar
Number (as mentioned in the received email) belong to you.
In
case the email id and last four digits of Aadhaar number belong to you, we
request you to please revert immediately with following additional information
for Aadhaar team to investigate the case:
a.
Full Name (Mandatory)
b.
Address with State and pin code (Mandatory)
c.
Phone number (Mandatory)
UIDAI
Team might contact you for more details.
Quote end
6.
My response of 10
Jun 2017, to the above mail, was as follows:
Quote begin
Mr
Administrator,
The
fact is established that the original mail had come from your e mail id.
Hence,
firstly, you are required to respond to the queries raised in my complaint
which are repeated below:
Now
please explain how this mail has been sent to me.
Is
it that Ravi Kumar Ojha's finger prints match mine?
Even
if it was so, how did Ravi Kumar Ojha's adhaar number get linked to this e mail
id?
And
why only to the e mail id and not mobile number provided at the time of
registering for Adhaar?
Next,
isn't it possible for you to identify my registered e mail id and adhaar number
from my name which I had used in my e mail for lodging the complaint? By the
way, the Aadhaar bears only this name and not my full name and my full name is
not in your records because the proof of identity used by your franchisee had
only this name and he NEVER asked for my full name! Now, I shall provide my
full name only AFTER receiving a satisfactory response to my queries.
My
address along with PIN code and mobile number are registered with you and is
correctly mentioned in my adhaar document also.
I
also take this opportunity to place on record the fact that your failure to
disclose your identity is not acceptable. Public servants have no right to
privacy in their professional communications.
Quote end
Continued….
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7.
I haven’t got any
response to that till now. However I have got another e mail, dated 26 Jul
2017, intimating another such fraud authentication with Punjab National Bank!
Screen shot of this mail is attached as Annexure 2.
8.
I request you to
get the matter investigated and arrange to get the system corrected before the
problem becomes too complicated to correct. The role of those responsible for
investigating complaints and their failure to provide satisfactory answer to my
complaint registered with them as Case No 20170518000392 also need to be
investigated.
Yours
truly,
Major
P M Ravindran (Retd)
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