Man applies for Aadhaar card for Bin Laden in Rajasthan; detained

Yash Goyal

Jaipur, May 14

A man has been detained for having tried to make an Aadhaar Card for killed al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden, police said on Sunday.   

Saddam Hussain Mansuri, an Aadhaar agent, filled up a form for Bin Laden, the man behind the 9/11 attacks in the US and who was killed in 2012. Masuri, who runs an Aadhaar Card Registration Centre in Mandal town, also used Laden’s blurred image.  Inconsistencies in address caught the eye of officials at the Unique Identification Authority of India, who promptly alerted police. Additionally, the application also had no thump prints and iris imaging.

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Police booked Mansuri on Friday evening, Mandal Police Station Head Officer Harish Kumar Sankhla said, adding the suspect claimed that the application was made “accidentally and without any malice”.

Police said the suspect would be detained for questioning.

In September 2014, a man had tried to have a 12-digit number Aaadhaar Card for Hindu deity Hanumanji in Rajasthan’s in Sikar district. The card showed the deity wearing a crown and string of pearls. It listed the cardholder's father as ‘Pawanji’ (The Ramayana describes Hanuman as the son of Vayu, the Wind God).