Nagaland Governor R.N. Ravi has directed the chief secretary to initiate criminal proceedings against state government employee indulging in “seditious and subversive” writings challenging the territorial integrity and sovereignty of the country and posting them on social media platforms, a Deccan Chronicle report stated.
Referring to one such instance of a state government official, the commissioner and secretary to Nagaland Governor, T. Mhabemo Yanthan said in his letter, “I have been directed to request the state government to take serious cognizance of such misconduct and initiate appropriate legal and disciplinary action against the delinquent government servants”, the report said.
The letter also directed all the heads of departments to sensitize state government employees in this regard.
Pointing out that the social media post justifying the demand of sovereign Nagaland was still in circulation on media platforms, security sources told the Deccan Chronicle that there have been numerous instances in which state government employees are found to have been voicing separatist sentiment on various platforms.
Asserting that it was not only harming the national interest, security sources said that such activities of a section of government employees was hampering the development activities of the state as well.
The letter of the governor has also been marked to Union Home secretary, Ajay Kumar Bhalla for necessary action and to check such seditious and subversive acts of state government employees, it said. State government sources told Deccan Chroniclethat departmental proceedings have been initiated against the particular officer.
