{"id":34561,"date":"2014-08-03T14:18:23","date_gmt":"2014-08-03T08:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=34561"},"modified":"2014-08-03T14:18:23","modified_gmt":"2014-08-03T08:48:23","slug":"court-seeks-details-objection-ministries-social-media-profiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/court-seeks-details-objection-ministries-social-media-profiles","title":{"rendered":"Court seeks details on objection to ministries\u2019 social media profiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font: 17px\/1.5em apres-regular-webfont, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">The Delhi High Court Friday sought an affidavit from former BJP leader K.N. Govindacharya who objected to the new government officially allowing opening of Twitter and Facebook accounts by PMO and other central government ministries in violation of law.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 17px\/1.5em apres-regular-webfont, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><span id=\"more-320235\"><\/span>A division bench of <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ministries%E2%80%99-social-media-profiles.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"34562\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/court-seeks-details-objection-ministries-social-media-profiles\/ministries-social-media-profiles\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/08\/ministries%E2%80%99-social-media-profiles.jpg?fit=275%2C183&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"275,183\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"ministries\u2019 social media profiles\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/08\/ministries%E2%80%99-social-media-profiles.jpg?fit=150%2C99&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/08\/ministries%E2%80%99-social-media-profiles.jpg?fit=275%2C183&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-34562\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ministries%E2%80%99-social-media-profiles.jpg?resize=275%2C183&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"ministries\u2019 social media profiles\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/08\/ministries%E2%80%99-social-media-profiles.jpg?w=275&amp;ssl=1 275w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/08\/ministries%E2%80%99-social-media-profiles.jpg?resize=150%2C99&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/a>asked counsel appearing for Govindacharya to file an affidavit in this regard after which it will hear the issue.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 17px\/1.5em apres-regular-webfont, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Advocate Virag Gupta raised the objection on the use of Facebook and Twitter for the official purpose by several ministries through private e-mail accounts, saying it violates the Public Records Act, as per which \u201cno person shall take or cause to be taken out of India any public records without the prior approval of the central government\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 17px\/1.5em apres-regular-webfont, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">The petitioner argued that the servers of these social networking sites are outside India so the nation\u2019s official data is transferred to other countries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 17px\/1.5em apres-regular-webfont, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">\u201cNineteen ministries are officially on Twitter, five ministries opened their Facebook accounts from private e-mail ids. 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