Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala): As many as 306 Aadhaar cards have been found in a sack at a scrap dealer’s shop at Kattakkada in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala on Friday.
The cards in their respective envelopes found at the scrap shop were addressed to 306 persons within Karakulam Post Office limits. The envelopes also had postal seals in them.
A person who reached the shop in an autorickshaw on Thursday had weighed and sold the sack full of old newspapers and other scraps, along with the Aadhaar cards, to the scrap dealer.
While Anbu, a Tamil Nadu native who runs the scrap shop, was checking the weight of the scrap papers on Friday morning, the newspaper agent from the locality who was standing nearby found the Aadhaar envelopes along with the other papers. They informed the police immediately.
Policemen attached to the Kattakkad Police station reached the scrap shop and took all the 306 Aadhaar cards found at the shop to the Police station. Besides Aadhaar cards, interview cards, periodicals sent by post, urgent mails from Village offices and banks and other such documents were also found in the same lot.
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Kattakkada Circle Inspector Bijukumar said that an investigation is on in connection with Karakulam Post Office to find out how more than 300 Aadhaar identity cards, which could be misused, reached the scrap shop.
