Rachna Khaira

The UIDAI has filed a police complaint against journalist Rachna Khaira of The Tribune who exposed a possible security breach in the country's vast biometric Aadhaar database that contains the personal details of over a billion citizens, raising fresh concerns about shrinking press freedom in India

After a police case was filed by the Aadhaar-issuing authority UIDAI against a newspaper reporter and others over a report that the Aadhaar database was vulnerable to misuse, Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today clarified that the action was not meant to suppress freedom of the press

Rachna Khaira, the reporter of The Tribune newspaper who has been named in an FIR for exposing breach of details of over one billion Aadhaar cards, on Sunday said she has just exposed the "tip of the iceberg" in her news report and that there was much more to come based on her investigations.

The UIDAI has filed a police complaint against journalist Rachna Khaira of The Tribune who exposed a possible security breach in the country's vast biometric Aadhaar database that contains the personal details of over a billion citizens, raising fresh concerns about shrinking press freedom in India

After a police case was filed by the Aadhaar-issuing authority UIDAI against a newspaper reporter and others over a report that the Aadhaar database was vulnerable to misuse, Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today clarified that the action was not meant to suppress freedom of the press

Rachna Khaira, the reporter of The Tribune newspaper who has been named in an FIR for exposing breach of details of over one billion Aadhaar cards, on Sunday said she has just exposed the "tip of the iceberg" in her news report and that there was much more to come based on her investigations.