The move was "unfair, unjustified and a direct attack on the freedom of the press," the Editors Guild said in a press release. Every Indian must condemn this mindless act of Modi Govt & @UIDAIhttps://t.co/To88cCbBbO - Randeep S Surjewala (@rssurjewala) January 7, 2018'Intent',& 'Intentions' of Modi Govt on Privacy were thoroughly exposed when it had proclaimed that 'no citizen can have an absolute right over his/her body'. In SC, Modi Govt had accepted Aadhaar data leak! Instead of penalising the reporter, UIDAI should have ordered a thorough internal investigation into the alleged breach and made its findings public. SignedRaj Chengappa, PresidentPrakash Dubey, General SecretaryKalyani Shankar, TreasurerThe UIDAI's statementALSO WATCH | UIDAI condemned by Editors Guild for booking journalist over data breach story

Source: India Today January 07, 2018 11:49 UTC