UIDAI number popped up in your contacts? Google owns up to putting it there

Google's response came as a relief for the social media community, which was in a frenzy over the mystery of the UIDAI's helpline number being found in people's contacts list

Even as the Aadhaar-issuing authority UIDAI said on Friday that it has not asked any phone maker or telecom service provider to include its toll-free number on mobile phones, search engine giant and Android-maker Google said that the number was inserted by the platform in the automatic setup wizard on phones back in 2014.  

Google said that the emergency number 112 and the UIDAI number got "inadvertently coded" in the Indian version of Android and have remained there since. 

"Since the numbers get listed on a user's contacts list these get transferred accordingly to the contacts on any new device," a