Ensure Newslaundry co-founder’s data is not leaked, HC tells Income Tax Department

Friday, 17 September 2021Newsdesk

As per news report of The Indian Express, the Delhi High Court asked the Income Tax Department to ensure the safety of the data it downloaded during a recent IT survey at the Newslaundry office after the news portal and its Co-Founder Abhinandan Sekhri moved the court seeking a direction against leaking of his private data.

New Delhi, 17 September 2021

“You’d have to take precaution it’s not leaked,” the division bench of Justices Manmohan and Navin Chawla told the IT department. “They should not leak anyone’s data. This case is only different because the press is on the other side. Normally nobody’s data should be leaked. It’s contrary to public interest. It’s ethically, morally wrong,” said the court. The department had downloaded private data from Sekhri’s MacBook and phone.

Source - indianexpress.com