Chandigarh, January 9: The Tribune has responded to queries sent by the Unique Identification Authority of India following the newspaper’s stories on the Aadhaar expose.
In a mail sent to The Tribune on January 6, the UIDAI’s regional office at Chandigarh had sought the following information:
“1. Whether it was at all possible for your correspondent to view or obtain Fingerprints and Iris scan of any person through the aforesaid access to UIDAI portal?
“2. How many Aadhaar numbers did the correspondent actually enter through the said login user id and password and whom did those Aadhaar numbers belong to?
“You are requested to send your response to UIDAI on the sender’s email by 8th January, 2018 failing which it will be presumed that there was no access to any Fingerprints and/or Iris scan.”
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