India
oi-Deepika S
New Delhi, June 02: Centre amended the Pension Rules for Civil Servants, prohibiting officials, who have retired after serving in intelligence and other security-related organisations, from publishing materials related to their former departments or any other “sensitive information”.
“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 the Head of the Organisation, make any publication after retirement, of any material relating to and including the domain of the organisation, including any reference or information about any personnel and his designation, and expertise or knowledge gained by virtue of working in that organisation,” said a gazette notification dated May 31.
“The Head of the…