NEW DELHI: The Delhi Police has lodged an FIR on a complaint by a UIDAI official over a newspaper report on the breach of one billion Aadhaar cards data, naming the reporter behind the story, even as the daily said it will defend its freedom to undertake investigative journalism. "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'," Congress' chief spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala tweeted. "In SC, Modi Govt had accepted Aadhaar data leak! Now instead of investigating, an evasive Modi ji shoots the messenger!" "I think I have earned this FIR.

Source: Times of India January 07, 2018 14:23 UTC