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They, however, told us that an attempt was made for the same on January 24, 2018.”Neither the former Aadhaar operator Vikram’s complaint nor UIDAI’s complaint or the FIRs filed on their basis had any mention of such an attempt. Talking to TOI, IO Samarjeet said, “Fresh inquiry by UIDAI team, which had come to Jind to investigate the matter, found that no transaction was done from Shamsher’s device on January 14, 2018. Both the complaints mentioned misuse of Vikram’s fingerprints to withdraw Rs 1,000 from a micro ATM on November 14, 2018 and again to withdraw Rs 7,500 from his another HDFC account on November 23, 2018. It is not known if the identity theft charges have been dropped.The IO said that now the police team would go to banks from where transactions were done to understand where the money had gone and how. On Vikram’s requests, banks had revealed that money was withdrawn in Delhi and Madhubani, Bihar On the basis of new information provided by UIDAI, police have added two more sections in the case against Shamsher — Sections 511 (punishment for attempting to commit offences punishable with imprisonment for life) and 84 C (whoever attempts to commit an offence punishable by this Act or causes such an offence to be committed) of the IT Act.The case was originally filed under the Aadhaar Act and identity theft and cheating by personation by using computer resource (Sections 66C and 66D of the IT Act, 2000) and cheating (Section 420 of IPC)..