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Mar 3 27 tweets 8 min read
Thread on the rollover and capture of the @FinMinIndia by the #AadhaarMafia. In 2016, lacking a majority in the Rajya Sabha, the Government of India passed the Aadhaar Act as a money bill.
Aug 7, 2020 44 tweets 44 min read
Aadhaar Enabled Plundering System (#AEPS)

Superintendent of police said, “A probe revealed that neither ATM nor e-wallet was used to take out the money, but it was withdrawn through Aadhaar enabled Payment System (AEPS)”

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timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/lucknow/g… Image Aadhaar Enabled Plundering System (#AEPS)

"... the men used to get hold of Aadhaar & Voter I-card of some persons & then forge them by printing their own photos on them. Then they used to open bank a/c's under the new identities & then apply for loans."

timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/k… Image
Jun 5, 2020 46 tweets 46 min read
Aadhaar Enabled Plundering System (#AEPS)

20 tonnes of food grains pilfered by linking fake Aadhaar with ration cards.

"Aadhaar will stop frauds."

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bhaskar.com/local/rajastha… Image Aadhaar Enabled Plundering System (#AEPS)

"... using the fake Aadhaar, the accused opened an account in a private bank & took a personal loan of Rs 40000 from a private finance company in MP Nagar."

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timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bhopal/bh… Image
Mar 13, 2020 22 tweets 21 min read
Aadhaar Enabled Plundering System (#AEPS)

"The accused asked Kokane for his documents including Aadhaar Card & PAN card to open a bank account. The man paid Kokane ₹2,000."

m.hindustantimes.com/cities/slum-dw… Image Aadhaar Enabled Plundering System (#AEPS)

"... set up 11 firms using forged documents & names of several people ... who were mostly farmers, daily wage earners."

"... several Aadhaar cards & other forged documents were retrieved"

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odishatv.in/odisha/gst-fra… Image
Feb 20, 2020 16 tweets 15 min read
Aadhaar Enabled Plundering System (#AEPS)

"The STF also recovered electronic data of 25,000 citizens which includes their phone numbers, Aadhaar & PAN details along with a separate list of Aadhaar & PAN details of another 6,000 people from the duo"

livemint.com/news/india/fak… Image Aadhaar Enabled Plundering System (#AEPS)

"The suspects got Brajesh make a fake Aadhaar card using which they opened a bank account in the name of an electrical firm."

"Aadhaar will stop frauds."

#AadhaarLies
#DestroyTheAadhaar

m.hindustantimes.com/noida/8-held-f… Image
Dec 21, 2019 16 tweets 14 min read
Aadhaar Enabled Fake Identity System (#AEFIS)

"Bangladeshi caught with Indian passport at KIA"

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deccanherald.com/city/banglades… Image Aadhaar Enabled Fake Identity System (#AEFIS)

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Aug 3, 2019 4 tweets 2 min read
So, somebody whose Aadhaar is linked with your bank account can actually empty your bank account? 🤔🤔

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deccanchronicle.com/business/compa… Improbable??? Cannot happen?

It already has.

Fraud is a feature of the Aadhaar Enabled Plundering System (#AEPS).

Jun 27, 2019 26 tweets 16 min read
Clear risks of government 'abusing' biometric databases, says UK's Biometric Commissioner.

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news.sky.com/story/clear-ri… "Under an agreement signed in 2018, the two agencies will share biometric data of individuals registered in each of their systems."

"By late 2019, IOM and WFP plan to have exchanged data for more than 700,000 people across the country."

africanews.com/2019/06/27/int…
May 13, 2019 15 tweets 11 min read
Aadhaar Enabled Poverty System (#AEPS)

"Two children have died of starvation after they resorted to eating mud"

"The family had no ration card as the authorities could not issue it because they had no Aadhaar cards"

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outlookindia.com/newsscroll/two… Aadhaar Enabled Poverty System (#AEPS)

"Joba and Banawali Sabar of Basadora village barely survive on rice and salt. ... They neither have a ration card nor do they get the PVTG pension, as neither of them has an Aadhaar"

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countercurrents.org/2019/05/sabars…
Apr 19, 2019 39 tweets 32 min read
Aadhaar Enabled Fake Identity System (#AEFIS)

"She had two Aadhaar cards with different names and age. We suspect that the girls could be minors but can confirm their age only after medical tests,”

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timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad… Aadhaar Enabled Fake Identity System (#AEFIS)

J&K man held with fake Aadhaar, PAN

tribuneindia.com/mobi/news/chan…
Feb 13, 2019 10 tweets 4 min read
Aadhaar Enabled Poverty System (#AEPS)

"Shekh Mahimood and his wife Bibi have not been receiving their monthly pensions for several months because of a discrepancy in their Aadhaar cards"

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newindianexpress.com/states/karnata… Aadhaar Enabled Poverty System (#AEPS)
Nov 17, 2018 36 tweets 12 min read
On 21-Aug, UDie announced that it had saved 90,000 crores.


Intrigued by the magnitude of the savings, I decided to file an RTI request. This thread documents my journey into the labyrinth.

#DestroyTheAadhaar I posed the following 4 questions to UDie
Nov 29, 2017 34 tweets 15 min read
What a trite puff piece for your friend Nandan Nilekani.
That it is completely devoid of facts & the realities of suffering at the ground level is not surprising.
Would you write the same if your family had to climb trees to get their entitlements?
Shame @nytimes
Thread 1/n '@tomfriedman @nytopinion @nytimes will you ask American citizens to "travel around 3 km (~1.9 miles) to reach higher grounds or hilltops to access network so that PoS machine can work".
And remember this is on foot, not in your gas guzzling SUV
hindustantimes.com/jaipur/no-netw…