New Delhi, July 13

A senior officer of the Army on Monday approached the Delhi HC challenging a recent policy banning armed forces’ officials from using social networking platforms, like Facebook and Instagram.

The petition, likely to come up for hearing on Tuesday, sought the court’s direction to the Director General of Military Intelligence to withdraw the June 6 policy. Under the norm, all Army members must delete their accounts from Facebook and Instagram and 87 other applications. Lt Col PK Choudhary, currently posted in J&K, pleaded that he used Facebook to connect with his friends and family. — PT