While hearing a case on alleged manipulation of Aadhaar data by a fair price shop dealer, the Allahabad High Court enquired how a fair price shop dealer could possibly change Aadhaar details in a database which is accessible only to the National Informatics Centre (NIC). Justice Manoj Kumar Gupta, on October 8, directed the UP government’s Principal Secretary, Food & Civil Supply Department, to file a personal affidavit answering the court’s query. LiveLaw first reported this. The question came up when the court was hearing a petition filed by one Awadhesh Kumar, a fair price shop dealer. Kumar’s fair price shop license was cancelled by the District Magistrate after he was found guilty of manipulating data of PDS beneficiaries in the Aadhaar database. Kumar was accused of interpolating this data through an “unknown technical operator” by “seeding mechanism” and then by using biometrics of people who aren’t actual beneficiaries to give them essential rations. “Let Principal Secretary, Food & Civil Supply Department, Government of U.P. Lucknow file his personal affidavit in the context of the above submission and explain how it is possible for a fair price shop dealer to change the Adhaar [Aadhaar] number in the data base which is accessible only to NIC.” — from the Allahabad High Court’s order Lawyers representing Kumar had argued that the actions he is accused of are not technically possible and the allegations are based on pure conjecture. They contended that the seeding of Aadhaar numbers is done by the NIC, and…
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Allahabad HC asks how a private individual can change Aadhaar details from database accessible only to NIC
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