Armed Maoists on Friday abducted four enrollers from an Aadhaar camp in Malkangiri district and released them after about six hours with a warning to stop the enrolment process.
The Maoists stormed into an Aadhaar enrolment camp at Marigata village and took with them four enrollers, according to State Census Operations wing sources here.The Red rebels snatched laptop computers and obtained passwords from enrollers to access Aadhaar enrolments data of the region, the sources said.The Maoists, through the enrollers, have also sent a three-page letter asking that the enrollment drive be immediately scrapped.“We have suspended the Aaadhaar enrolment in the region after the incident,” a census operations official said.