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MOTIHARI: East Champaran postal superintendent Satya Narayan Prasad has ordered a departmental inquiry into dumping of hundreds of original Aadhaar cards into the Oriya river near Nimoiya village under the Chiraiya police station area in the district.

Locals spotted the Aadhaar cards floating in the river on Thursday. Some of them even jumped into the swollen river and fished out around 70 Aadhaar cards which were wrapped in envelops.

A four-member team headed by postal inspector Rajesh Kumar will probe the case after collecting the Aadhaar cards. “Though the exact reason behind dumping of the Aadhaar cards is not known yet, prima facie it seems that the cards were dumped by some unscrupulous postmen during the floods,” Rajesh said.

One Nilesh Kumar, a Class X student from Nimoiya village, first spotted the Aadhaar cards floating in the river. “Most cards were to be delivered to people in Motihari town,” Nilesh added.

