UP: 3 held for data breach of food and civil supplies department

Three people were arrested by the Special Task Force (STF) of the Uttar Pradesh police Sunday for allegedly breaching data of the food and civil supplies department to distribute ration to unauthorised Aadhaar accounts.

Mohd Aamir, Mohd Altamash and Pushependra Pal were arrested and a computer and two EPOS (electronic point of sale) were seized from their possession, an STF spokesman said here.

An FIR in this connection has been lodged at the cyber crime police station of the STF, he said.