Pakistani terrorists utilizing Aadhaar card to camouflage id; Jammu and Kashmir Police for stronger security options

By PTI

SRINAGAR: With terror teams misusing Aadhaar card to camouflage the id of their Pakistani cadres, the Jammu and Kashmir Police will request the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) to strengthen security options of the biometric ID, officers have mentioned.

The police power may even pitch for devising a mechanism for getting real-time data on an Aadhaar card being misused by terrorists.

The misuse of the biometric ID got here to gentle following the current killing of two Pakistani terrorists in Bishembhar Nagar, adjoining to the Dal Lake, in Srinagar.

The terrorists, who had been concerned within the killing of CRPF jawans earlier this month, had been recognized as Mohammed Bhai alias Abu Qasim, who had been lively in Kashmir Valley since 2019, and Abu Arsalan alias Khalid, who was current since 2021.

However, the recoveries from the encounter web site included two Aadhaar playing cards bearing an deal with in Jammu.

Subsequently, the police carried out a radical search and located that the Aadhaar numbers had been real however the playing cards had their passport-sized footage superimposed on them, an official mentioned.

A real Aadhaar card incorporates image clicked on webcam, he added.

Such camouflaging makes an attempt by the Pakistan-based terror teams and their masters within the ISI are geared toward portray the terrorism in Kashmir Valley as an indigenous motion, the officers mentioned.

Alarmed by the blatant misuse of Aadhaar playing cards, the Jammu and Kashmir Police has determined to put in writing to UIDAI requesting it to incorporate extra security options, the officers mentioned.

Privacy pointers of Aadhaar are very stringent, thereby stopping the regulation enforcement companies from verifying any explicit card.

A fundamental verify can solely present the age bracket of the cardboard holder with out revealing the precise id, the officers mentioned.

The police may even cite the case of Mohammed Ismal Alvi alias Lambu, one of many masterminds of the 2019 assault on the CRPF convoy that left 40 personnel useless.

A cast Aadhaar card was recovered from the location of the encounter by which he was killed.

Several cast Aadhaar playing cards have additionally been discovered from numerous hideouts of terror teams up to now few months, the officers mentioned.