Assam Police become northeast’s first offline Aadhaar verification entity

way2barak, July 18: Assam Police have become country’s third and region’s first state agency to be registered as an Offline Verification Seeking Entity (OVSE) under the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI).

Before Assam Police, the UIDAI OVSE list included two state-police-linked entities — Ahmedabad City Crime Branch in Gujarat and Police Computer Services and Standardisation of Telangana Police — besides central forces such as CISF and Sashastra Seema Bal.

The OVSE registration will now allow Assam Police to carry out UIDAI-approved offline Aadhaar verification in the field, enabling faster identity checks, detection of forged Aadhaar documents and quicker delivery of police verification services, especially in remote and low-connectivity areas of the state.

The registration is expected to benefit routine police-linked public services such as tenant verification, character verification, passport verification and arms licence verification. Instead of relying only on physical Aadhaar copies, police personnel will be able to verify whether the Aadhaar document presented is genuine by scanning its secure QR code.