After Track-II diplomacy failed to help reunite Karachi runaway boy Ramzan with his mother in Pakistan through the Bangladesh route, Madhya Pradesh Government is now embroiled in the controversy over issuing an Aadhar Card to him.
Ramzan is a Pak national and holds a 12 digit unique identification number (9260-4678-7121) issued by Unique identification authority of India on behalf of Government of India. His Aadhar number was issued as a Indian national on the address of his shelter home Umeed, without a nationality check, as he told he hailed from Ranchi during the process.
While state home department ordered an inquiry into the matter, authorities claimed his Aadhar Card was processed before they came to know about his links with Pakistan and Bangladesh, where his father currently stays with his step mother. It was only after Aadhar application of Ramzan and other inmates of Umeed shelter home were sent for processing that Ramzan shared the truth about his nationality with the NGO. Ramzan claimed that he was tortured by his step mother in Bangladesh, which forced him to cross over to India through the porous Bangladesh border before finally reaching Bhopal. When Aadhaar card applications were being prepared by NGO Aarambh, Ramzan told members that he hailed from Ranchi.
But by the time, he hit headlines of being a Pakistani national, his Aadhaar Card was already issued. “We tried getting his Aadhar Card cancelled, but the office where it was issued categorically said UIDAI rulebook doesn't have an option for cancellation. So we wouldn't do anything. On last Friday some members again checked with the Aadhar Card office and they denied again," said Archana Sahay, director NGO Aarambh and Childline Bhopal. Aadhaar cCard is a 12 digit unique identification number issued by the Unique Identification Authority of India on behalf of the Government of India.