Hyderabad, Aug. 8 -- A high-ranking employee in the state's revenue department has been drawing a salary of over Rs 2 lakh a month, while another employee in the police department has been drawing over Rs 1 lakh a month. The two have different names and work in different departments, but they are registered against the same Aadhaar number.

According to an ABN report, this is not an isolated case. The Telangana Finance Department has identified 80 such employees linked to just 40 Aadhaar numbers, two employees to a number, all of them regular staff drawing salaries ranging between Rs 1 lakh and Rs 4 lakh a month. Following the discovery, Chief Secretary Sanjay Jaju issued a circular to various government departments on Friday, August 7, d...