Chandigarh, January 8: After the UIDAI filing a case on The Tribune and reporter over a report in The Tribune on the breach of details of more than one billion Aadhaar cards, the newspaper on Sunday said authorities have “misconceived” an honest journalistic enterprise.
The Tribune’s Editor-in-Chief Harish Khare in a statement also said that the newspaper’s stories are in the best traditions of responsible journalism.
“We regret very much that the authorities have misconceived an honest journalistic enterprise and have proceeded to institute criminal proceedings against the whistleblower,” he said. He said that The Tribune shall explore all legal options “open to us to defend our freedom to undertake serious investigative journalism.”
Deputy Director of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), B M Patnaik told the police that an input was received from The Tribune that it purchased a service being offered by anonymous sellers over WhatsApp that provided unrestricted access to details of any of the Aadhaar numbers created in India.
