UIDAI bars Airtel from conducting e-KYC for Aadhaar linkage
The UIDAI has temporarily suspended the e-KYC licence of Airtel and Airtel Payments Bank with immediate effect. This comes after Airtel was accused of using the Aadhaar-eKYC based process to open payments bank accounts of subscribers without their consent. More than 23 lakh customers reportedly received over â¹47 crore in their Airtel bank accounts, which they didn't know were opened.