Goa, July 13 -- Israeli drug lord Yaniv Benaim, alias Atala, arrested by the Anti-Narcotic Police (ANC), in his affidavit has stated that providing information about him to the police would infringe his right to privacy, even as the police want to probe how the foreigner obtained an Aadhaar Card when he had no travel documents.

The Anjuna Police have filed a criminal application before the High Court of Bombay at Goa, seeking to investigate how the Aadhaar Card was issued to Atala.

After Atala filed his affidavit-in-reply, the High Court, in the presence of counsels for both parties, opened the sealed envelope submitted by Gaurav Choudhary, Deputy Director of UIDAI (Unique Identification Authority of India), Regional Office, Mumbai.

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