Of all agencies, 'snooping powers' to IB is the most worrisome: Here's why

The Intelligence Bureau has no charter under Indian law and is officially described as "a civilian organisation which does not enjoy police powers"

Compulsive public interest litigator ML Sharma can be a pain. But he has on occasion and perhaps by accident been of service to the legal community and it is to be hoped that his Christmas-eve PIL against the MHA surveillance order is taken seriously by the Supreme Court.

The Indian government’s charter to 10 security agencies to snoop on its own citizens is not only illegal and bad in law, it offends the senses. All six of them.

It is a malicious notification that should have been aborted at the very moment of conception. By this government and the previous