The Delhi High Court Thursday was told by the government that it is on the verge of finalising the e-mail policy for official communication by government officers in order to bar transfer of data to a server outside the country.<\/p>\n
A division bench of Justice B.D. Ahmed and Justice Vibhu Bakhru, recording the submission of the central government, said: “It is an important issue, do it fast. We are sure new policy will be in line with the provisions of the Public Records Act.”<\/p>\n
The court asked government’s counsel Sumit Pushkarna about its stand on the allegation that officials were using social networking sites and other e-mail accounts with service providers, whose servers were outside India, for official communications instead of the government server of national informatics centre (nic.in).<\/p>\n
In reply to the court’s query, counsel submitted a draft policy before the bench and said that a comprehensive e-mail policy will be formed and the same will be placed before the court within four weeks.<\/p>\n
The court was hearing a petition filed by former Bharatiya Janata Party leader N. Govindacharya saying that use of e-mail accounts whose servers were outside India and transfer of nation’s official data using this medium was violative of the Public Records Act.<\/p>\n
The court would next hear the case Oct 30.<\/p>\n
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