Aadhaar Details and Phone Number Leaked on Telegram — What You Can Do Legally in India

Sneha Iyer, a nineteen-year-old resident of Gomti Nagar, Lucknow, first realised something was wrong in early March 2025. A stranger on Telegram had somehow obtained her mobile number, traced the SIM to her mother's Aadhaar card, and was actively circulating the family's personal information across multiple Telegram groups. The stranger had mistaken Sneha for someone else entirely — a friend of a mutual contact — and rather than verifying his error, he chose to publicise the details as a form of intimidation.

Sneha first went to a general practitioner, who told her to file an online cyber complaint and wait. Weeks passed. Nothing meaningful happened. Frustrated and genuinely alarmed, because the leaked data included her mother's Aadhaar number and residential address, she was referred to Advocate Sudhir Rao. The approach shifted entirely. A formal cyber complaint was filed with the Lucknow Cyber Crime Cell, supported by preserved screenshots and a documented chain of evidence. Simultaneously, a legal notice was dispatched to the offending individual through the contact details his own friend had voluntarily provided. The Cyber Crime Cell took cognizance promptly once the complaint was properly structured with specific statutory references. The circulation stopped, and the matter moved toward resolution within a few weeks — an outcome the initial, unstructured approach hadn't come close to achieving.

You can read about this case in detail at https://sudhirrao.com/aadhaar-details-phone-number-leaked-telegram-legal-remedies/