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An Army officer has challenged in the Delhi High Court the current regulation prohibiting the usage of social networking platforms, including Facebook and Instagram, in all ranks.

Lt. Col. PK Choudhary stated in his petition that the policy released on June 6, 2020, which banned the use of 89 applications and sites broke various basic rights under the Constitution, including the right to flexibility of speech and expression and right to privacy. The plea is listed for hearing on Tuesday,

The policy mandates every serving Army male to also erase their particular accounts on the websites and applications.

” The orders of banning usage and deletion of Soldier’s profiles and information from social networking sites is particular of authoritarian programs and i