'Aadhaar-less citizens can be eliminated': Fears around misuse by state coming true
Social activist Shabnam recorded a policeman telling her those without Aadhaar could be 'eliminated' LATEST NEWS : If the threats made by one police officer in Delhi are true, the government seems to have launched a ‘surround and eliminate’ campaign against people whose addresses are not known and who do not possess Aadhaar numbers or cards . Incredible though it sounds, a police officer told social activist Shabnam Hashmi that this is now a standing instruction to all police stations. Moreover, the officer – accused of threatening and abusing Hashmi when she called him on the night of July 14 to know why the husband of a woman, who learns stitching at a training centre run by the NGO Pehchan at Jaitpur in south-east Delhi, had been summoned at a late hour – insisted that police personnel were well within their rights to act in this way. The police may brush aside this assertion as the concerned officer’s personal opinion, or they may choose to even deny the veraci...