Vodafone

Aadhaar

The police on Saturday bookedofficials, including its assistant vice-president of customer service, for allegedly misusing thedetails provided by a customer.The victim, identified as Anil Shantaram Patil (62), a retired deputy superintendent of police, had approached Kothrud police against an unidentified staffer of Vodafone Store, Paud Road. The staffer had allegedly tried to use the Aadhaar number given as an identity proof to issue a new SIM card between July 9 and August 27. The complaint had visited the store on July 3 to convert his post-paid SIM to a pre-paid one. As per the norms, he gave his identity proof details to an unidentified executive.However, on July 9, he received an SMS, which said ‘authetication failed’. On July 16, he received four similar back-to-back SMS texts. Kothrud police inspector Appasaheb Shewale said his team was probing the case.