Abhinav Srivastav, 31, an IIT-Kharagpur graduate, has been arrested by the Bengaluru city police on the charge of accessing Aadhaar data, the police said in a statement. The arrest made on August 1 followed a complaint filed against him by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) last week.
Srivastav, currently employed by ANI Technologies, which owns the Ola brand, as a software development engineer, has been accused of accessing Aadhaar information in January 2017 through an app named ‘Aadhaar e-KYC’, which was available on the Google Play store till recently. Police said Srivastav had developed five apps and made ₹40,000 from advertisements displayed on them. Police are now scanning all his apps to see whether more violations were committed. The Aadhaar e-KYC app was downloaded over 50,000 times from the Google Play store since its launch in January, the police said.

Abhinav Srivastav, 31, an IIT-Kharagpur graduate, has been arrested by the Bengaluru city police on the charge of accessing Aadhaar data, the police said in a statement. The arrest made on August 1 followed a complaint filed against him by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) last week.
Srivastav, currently employed by ANI Technologies, which owns the Ola brand, as a software development engineer, has been accused of accessing Aadhaar information in January 2017 through an app named ‘Aadhaar e-KYC’, which was available on the Google Play store till recently. Police said Srivastav had developed five apps and made ₹40,000 from advertisements displayed on them. Police are now scanning all his apps to see whether more violations were committed. The Aadhaar e-KYC app was downloaded over 50,000 times from the Google Play store since its launch in January, the police said.