According to an FIR registered by the VP Road police, Dhapre had enrolled for Aadhaar in 2012. Three years later, an officer from Mundhva police station in Pune arrived at his house, suspecting that he had been harassing a woman over the phone. Dhapre had to travel to Pune to record his statement. It turned out that the man behind the harassment had used Dhapre’s Aadhaar card to get KYC done for not just the mobile connection in question, but two others as well.
Dhapre did not file a police complaint at the time as he believed the issue had been resolved. However, in 2017, he went to a bank to open a joint account with his father.
He furnished his Aadhaar card but was told it could not be accepted as it had already been linked with another bank account. Dhapre wrote an email to the bank at once, saying his Aadhaar card had been misused.
He also began to wonder what was going on, and decided to Google his name. That’s when he realised to his shock that a copy of his Aadhaar card had been posted on several websites. He soon learned that someone using his name and Aadhaar number had opened an account on a shopping website and duped several people with the false promise of selling them branded electronic gadgets. Soon enough, victims of these frau ..
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