A police case has been filed against The Tribune journalist who exposed how people could illegally access demographic data of individuals from UIDAI, the authority that issues Aadhaar numbers.
The complaint, which also names people who sold unauthorised access details to the journalist, was filed within days of the news report.
The report had renewed privacy concerns around the world’s largest database of biometric details of a 1.19 billion residents in India.
The Editor’s Guild of India has condemned the police case against the journalist, Rachna Khaira.
“It is clearly meant to browbeat a journalist whose investigation on the matter was of great public interest. It is unfair, unjustified and a direct attack on the freedom of the press,” it said.
