GURUGRAM: A team from the nodal office for

enrolment in Gurugram has raided a

in

and another in

, Gurugram, for using rubber plaques with thumb impressions of authorised persons to run fake enrolment centres. Earlier, the team submitted a report on the two cafes to additional deputy commissioner Munish Sharma, who ordered legal action.

The cafe near Priyanka Public School on Manesar-Khoh Road which was being run by Vinod Kumar was raided on September 6. Kumar was using the

and software of his Jajjhar-based relative Chanchal Kumari, an authorised operator under District Information Technology Society (DITS), Jajjhar.

The

on the cafe in Sector 18, Gurugram, which was being run by Dalip Singh, was carried out two days later. Singh was using the thumb impression and software authorised to his brother, Bachchu Singh, based in Alwar, Rajasthan, and working with DITS Alwar.

The Unique Identification Authority of India (

) has blacklisted Chanchal and Bachchu as of now and FIRs are likely to be registered against Kumar and Singh on Wednesday.

Chanchal Kumari, whose thumb print was abused in the Manesar cafe, told TOI she approached Kumar on August 21 with her computer, which had the Aadhaar enrolment software, for some work. When this reporter informed her that Kumar’s cafe was raided on September 6, she changed her statement and said she visited him on the day of the raid.

Kumar, however, protested his innocence. He said that he started Aadhaar enrolments two years ago when private agencies were still involved in the process. “I am no longer doing Adhaar-related work. When the team raided my cafe, I was helping a customer with online documents,” he said. He added that his only mistake was that he had not removed banners related to Aadhaar enrolment from outside his cafe.

Kumar’s partner Rahul said that several cafes had come up in Manesar which were using rubber thumb impressions for Aadhaar enrolment without any valid authorisation.

District manager, Aadhaar enrolment, Deepak Sehrawat, who led the raid team, said, “Kumar was making Aadhaar enrolments using software from Chanchal Kumari. We conducted the raid under the guise of customers. We videographed Kumar with a strip displayed on the computer, showing Kumari’s registration code, district agency code and software ID.”

Singh has admitted to his crime, saying he was lured into it by cafe owner Sandeep Yadav. “I procured the rubber thumb from Mathura even though it is easily available in Delhi. A few cafe owners are using these in Gurugram,” he said. Singh, a graduate from Alwar, said his work had come to a halt after the raid. He has returned to Mathura, his hometown. He said that he had not mustered courage to reveal the raid to his family, especially his brother.

Naveen Bansal, state resource person from UIDAI, said that the agency was yet to get detailed documents from the district. Additional deputy commissioner Munish Sharma said, “It was a novel way to get Aadhaar enrolment done. We will curb such crimes in Gurugram district.”

Rajesh Gupta, nodal officer of Aadhaar enrolment, said that this fraud had several implications. “People can get a thumb impression and use it for biometric attendance or fraud in Aadhaar-based government schemes such as public distribution system or tampering in procuring a phone SIM.”