The Punjab and Haryana High Court has issued a notice to the Unique Identification Authority of India after it found that Aadhaar cards with wrong details were issued, The Indian Express reported on Sunday. The court has also asked the Punjab Police to investigate why a person’s birth date was wrong in her Aadhaar card.
The court issued the notice while hearing a plea filed by a Ferozepur couple, who approached it asking for protection from their parents and relatives who were against their marriage. The court heard the couple’s case first in February, when it was told that the woman was around 19 years, while her husband is 33.
An Aadhaar card showed the woman’s date of birth as January 1, 1996. However, in an earlier affidavit, the court was told that woman was born on October 5, 1998.
The court then asked the police to look into the documents. During the most recent hearing on Tuesday, Deputy Advocate General of Punjab, Monika Jalota, told the court that the police was investigating if the Aadhaar card was forged, and that a school register mentioned the woman’s date of birth as March 13, 1999.
Justice Amol Rattan Singh observed that some Aadhaar cards produced in court had such incorrect dates of birth and said, “Consequently, the Director/Deputy Director/Head of Institution of the Unique Identification Authority of India, Regional Centre, Chandigarh, is ordered to be impleaded as respondent no 11.”
“On what basis the Aadhaar card has been issued giving that date of birth is wholly un-understood,” the court said, and asked UIDAI to submit its response on April 23.
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