Shinde ‘no’ to Army plan of ITBP control
New Delhi: The plans of the Army for controlling Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), which guards the frontier with China, were rejected by Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Wednesday as he said there will be no change in the command.”ITBP home department ke paas hi rahegi” (ITBP will stay with the Home Ministry only),” was the reply of the Home Minister during a Press conference. He was replying to various questions including one on proposed handing over the operational command of ITBP to the Army’s leh-based 14 Corps which oversees the country’s frontier with China and Pakistan in ladakh division of Jammu and Kashmir. In the wake of recent incursion along the Sino-Indian border in this division, the Army had pushed for taking over control of ITBP for “cohesion, coordination and synergy” to counter the Chinese Army’s “offensives” acts.
SC to hear plea
on net freedom
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear a plea seeking to restrain Government authorities from taking any coercive action against anyone for posting alleged objectionable comments on social networking sites. An application was filed before the apex court seeking its direction to the authorities not to take action for posting such comments during the pendency of a case before it pertaining to constitutional validity of Section 66A of the Information Technology (IT) Act. A Bench of Justices BS Chauhan and Dipak Misra will also hear the plea for release of Hyderabad-based woman activist who was arrested and sent to jail over her Facebook post in which certain “objectionable” comments were made against Tamil Nadu Governor K Rosaiah and Congress MlA Amanchi Krishna Mohan.