BENGALURU: The Central Crime Branch (CCB) sleuths have arrested the director of Qarth Technologies Pvt. Ltd Abhinav Srivastava, who was accused of providing authentification and e-KYC through an Android app in an unauthorised way.
UIDAI Deputy Director Ashok Lenin had lodged a complaint on July 26 at the High Grounds police station stating that the accused had developed a mobile application by name ‘mygov Aadhaar e-kyc’ and was providing authentication and e-KYC API services in an unauthorised manner.
The application, he said, was using authentication and e-KYC service of NIC in violation of the sections 29(2), 22 (4) and 14 (1) (a) of the Aadhaar Act 2016. The police had booked the accused under 37, 38 and 29(2) of the Aadhaar Act 2016, sections 65 and 66 of the IT Act 2000 and sections 120(B), 468 and 471 of IPC and had transferred the case to the CCB on July 27.
