In New Delhi on January 26 Indian Army has announced orders for all the officers and other ranks in the beginning who had linked with social networking sites like Facebook or Orkut to right away leave them, and also said that the one who had not linked with the sites should not do so in the future.

As sources said Indian Army was encountering problems in observing in case if any of its personnel were carelessly entrying any delicate newson these social networking sites.In the beginning Indian Armymen had been commanded not to write any official data on a forementioned sites.

Sources said the Army was earlier monitoring if officers were posting any pictures of themselves in uniform, their weaponry, or of their units. But it was then decided to ask all personnel to exit these websites altogether to remove any possibility of information leakage.

A significant number of armed forces officers are known to be active on social networking sites like Facebook and others.

The Army feared officers could be lured into inadvertently leaking classified information on these websites by those who might seek to trap them for espionage through “honeytraps” and other methods. The orders will be binding on all 36,000 officers and other personnel of the 1.13 million-strong force.

The Army hopes that officers will get the message and will not post any official data about themselves by proxy through family members as well.

In spite of the orders issued by Indian Army, if any soldier or officer found to go against the rules, a strict action will be taken said by a source.