Did IT Grids access data from state Aadhar repository to obtain details of citizens?

Hyderabad: IT Grids (India) Pvt Ltd, the software company that created the ‘Seva Mitra’ app for the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and is being investigated for alleged data theft by the Telangana police, may have accessed Aadhar details of 7.8 crore citizens (of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana) from the State Resident Data Hub (SRDH). SRDH is an Aadhaar-seeded repository of information consolidated from multiple government databases.

While the SRDH data was deleted (on instruction of the Centre due to privacy concerns pertaining to Aadhar data) towards the end of 2017, officials from the Telangana’s Information Technology and Electronics department said that IT Grids may have managed to access citizen data from both Telugu states as the SRDH data was never divided between AP and Telangana.