*ISLAMABAD: Two former employees of National Database and RegistrationAuthority (Nadra) have been identified and subsequently booked for stealingsensitive records and data.*
The authority has nominated a former deputy chairman and a deputy directorin the First Information Reports (FIRs). The complaint was lodged by NadraHQ Chief of Staff, retired Col Tahir Maqsood Khan
The former employees were booked after incidents of thefts from NadraHeadquarters were reported to the Secretariat police in Islamabad.
The FIR states that former deputy chairman stole sensitive information andhe was dismissed from the service a few months back. He also carried alongsome belongings of the authority, the complaint says.
Police have booked both the ex-Nadra officials under Section 380 of thePakistan Penal Code (PPC).
On June 20, the Nadra had rejected reports claiming breach in voters dataas alleged by some political quarters.
Nadra issued a clarification a day after the Election Commission ofPakistan (ECP) wrote a letter to the authority, in which it raised theissue of a leak of voters’ data by someone in the authority to the PML-N.The ECP letter said that the breach had occurred in the computerisedelectoral rolls system (CERS).
Addressing a press conference in Islamabad, four director generals of theNadra rejected the allegations. They said, “There has never been a databreach in the history of Nadra. We have never shared any citizen’s datawith anyone.”
They added that in the ECP letter there was no mention of the securitybreach.