Dec 05, 2017, 10:32 PM IST | Source : MIRROR NOW DIGITAL
Archit Kulkarni, who owns a consultancy firm, told Mumbai Mirror that he was stunned when he received an SMS message informing him about the incident.
He said that he hadn't linked his Aadhaar number to his ICICI bank accounts purposely as he wanted to wait for the Supreme Court verdict on pleas challenging the Centre’s move to make Aadhaar mandatory for various services, including banking and telecom, and also for availing benefits of welfare schemes.
“As a customer, it is my absolute right to tell the bank to delink my accounts from Aadhaar, especially when I’m ready to face repercussions if any,” he told Mumbai Mirror.
Ritu Tadaiya from ICICI Bank, who was recently assigned as Kulkarni’s personal banker, said the only way the bank would have such details is when a customer himself provides it. “I’m not sure what has exactly happened in the case you are referring to. I’ll have to check the records. However, the bank will only know a customer’s Aadhaar ID and other such details when he/she provides it,” Tadaiya said, according to the paper.
However, Kulkarni called out Tadaiya on his statement and said that he remembers that he had "flatly refused" when his personal banker had asked him for his Aadhaar details.
“A week after that meeting, I received an SMS saying the UID number has been successfully linked to my accounts. I put out a tweet addressing the bank and asking them to delink the accounts, but it hasn’t done anything,” he said.