Updated On: 02 August, 2024 04:14 AM IST | Mumbai | The Editorial
Hours later, the official account of the UIDAI responded to Mehta’s post to provide help

Filmmaker Hansal Mehta
Reports across media stated that filmmaker Hansal Mehta recently said it has been frustrating to see his daughter, who has been trying to apply for an Aadhaar card for three weeks, caught up in a back ‘n’ forth rigmarole. The National Award-winning filmmaker tagged the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI)—a government body mandated to issue the biometric identifier Aadhaar—in an X post, alleging that the treatment meted out by authorities at the Aadhaar centre was tantamount to harassment.
Mehta’s post roughly stated that it had taken his daughter several rounds of the office where more or less she had been told to bring a particular document, something to be signed, a stamp should be in the correct place or that somebody or the other seemed to be on leave and to come in again.