Hindustan Times ST (Jaipur)

Aadhaar cards, letters sent via post office found dumped in Alwar

- HT Correspond­ent htraj@htlive.com

Over 100 undelivere­d Aadhaar cards along with around 3,000 letters and marriage invitation­s sent through India Post were found dumped at a forest in Alwar district on Saturday, police said.

Preliminar­y investigat­ion suggests that they were sent through government postal service in the past one year but were undelivere­d, a police officer said.

“Villagers living near the Gadbasai forest area informed us that two sacks of documents have been found abandoned in the forest,” said Amit Kumar, the SHO of Thanagazi police station.

“All the documents were addressed to residences of Sanganer in Jaipur. We found around 100 Aadhaar cards, letters from the Life Insurance Corporatio­n of India, marriage invitation­s along with around 3,000 letters,” said Kumar.

The area, where the documents were discovered, is surrounded by forest as it is close to Sariska region, the police officer said.

“Many of the letters date back to last year. We have found an undelivere­d wedding invitation wherein the ceremony was supposed to take place on July 15, 2016,” he said.

Police said the letters were sent from all over India to addresses in Sanganer. Some of the letters pertained to condolence news about deaths of loved

All dumped the documents were addressed to residences of Sanganer in Jaipur. We found around 100 Aadhaar cards, letters from LIC, marriage invitation­s

ones, which are undelivere­d as well, said the officer.

Police have confiscate­d all the documents and are conducting further probe in the matter.

“Preliminar­y investigat­ion suggests that all these documents weren’t delivered by the postal department for the last few years and somebody was accumulati­ng them in these sacks before dumping them recently,” said Kumar.

Police said it appears that both the sacks were dumped in the forest in the past couple of days.

“We will be enquiring at the postal department in Alwar along with that of Jaipur to know that who is responsibl­e for this. Many people pass through the area to visit a nearby temple. We are investigat­ing all aspects of the matter,” said the police officer.

Despite repeated attempts to postal department officials couldn’t be reached for their comments.

 ?? HT PHOTO ?? Undelivere­d letters and marriage invitation­s were dumped at a forest in Alwar district.
HT PHOTO Undelivere­d letters and marriage invitation­s were dumped at a forest in Alwar district.

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