Man forges wife’s Aadhaar card to check into 5-star Mumbai hotel with girlfriend, gets busted

MUMBAI: A 39-year-old homemaker from Vadodara filed a complaint against her businessman husband and an unknown person for allegedly using her forged Aadhaar card to check into a five-star hotel in Bandra West along with a woman, police said.

The Bandra police registered the case on May 8 against the businessman after the homemaker found out about the alleged forgery and impersonation.

The homemaker applied for a divorce in Surat in Feb this year with mutual consent after marrying the businessman in 2013.

“The FIR has been registered for cheating, forgery and impersonation. No arrest has been made as the offence entails punishment below seven years. Notice has been served to the accused,” said a police officer of the Bandra police station.

In the complaint, the homemaker said, “I learned about the misuse of my Aadhaar card when I got a call from the five-star staff alerting me about it. He used a fake and fabricated Aadhaar card with my name and photo, even though they knew it was not mine. The woman along with him impersonated me by making it appear that the woman on the Aadhaar card was me, and by misusing that fake Aadhaar card, my husband and the unknown woman accompanying him conspired to defraud me.”

The fraud was discovered when the complainant visited Mumbai for personal work on April 14.

“At that time my advocate called me and asked if my husband and I had reconciled and withdrawn our divorce case. When I said no, he told me that someone known to him had seen my husband check into a hotel room under his name and with another person. After verifying the details, I visited the hotel the next day and checked the CCTV and booking details before approaching the Bandra police,” said the complainant in the FIR.