AHMEDABAD: The Delhi police have recorded statements of employees of an Aadhaar centre, which is running from the Surat Collector’s office in Gujarat , in connection with the alleged Aadhaar data breach case, officials said on Thursday. Surat’s resident additional collector S D Vasava said that a Delhi police team visited the district around two weeks ago.

During the visit, the police personnel did not contact any senior official of the Surat collectorate and left after taking statements of the staff working at the Aadhaar centre, he said. “Police officials... took copies of government documents related to private agencies which were hired by us for posting supervisors and operators for Aadhaar centres,” deputy mamlatdar (planning) Mahendra Dave said.

“Supervisors and operators are usually hired through outsourcing. They are not government employees. That might be the reason why the police collected those documents to find out the agency which had deployed its men,” said Dave. He said the password to open the ‘Aadhaar registration kit’ usually remains with a senior official. Vasava also said he was not aware if anyone was summoned for questioning by the Delhi police.

“They have not contacted us or given details about the probe...” he said. Vasava said the Delhi police did not mention anything about the misuse of password or involvement of any staff member working at the centre inside the collectorate.

In January this year, Delhi police had registered an FIR based on UIDAI official’s complaint in connection with a report published in Chandigarh-based ‘The Tribune’ newspaper on the breach of details of the over one billion Aadhaar cards

