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India amended its Pension Rules for Civil Servants, barring the country’s retired officials in intelligence or security related organisations to publish any information related to their organisation without clearance from the competent authority, reports The Hindu.
The retired officials will have to sign an undertaking to the effect and pension could be withheld or withdrawn for failure to comply with the rules.
The amended rule says that "No government servant, who, having worked in any Intelligence or Security-related organisation included in the Second Schedule of the Right to Information Act, 2005 (22 of 2005), shall, without prior clearance from Competent Authority" shall not publish in any manner, while in service or after retirement, any information or material or knowledge which is related to the domain of the organisation and obtained by virtue of working in the said organisation.
The order is said to have a bearing on retired police chiefs and intelligence agency officials who have either penned a book or regularly write columns in newspapers and magazines.
It bars retires officials from sharing sensitive information "the disclosure of which would prejudicially affect the sovereignty and integrity of India, the security, strategic, scientific or economic interests of the State, or relation with a foreign State or which would lead to incitement of an offence."
