Sources said home secretary Rajiv Mehrishi summoned Garg, joint secretary in charge of the Northeast, for his Facebook post and "reprimanded" him for voicing his personal opinion on a public platform. A ministry official said Garg was "made to delete his Facebook post" where he had also slammed Delhi police for shoddy investigation in the case and framing innocent youths. In his Facebook post yesterday, Garg had said "one wonders the type of policing we have, the type of criminal justice system we have where innocents can be made to spend as much as 11years in jail". Last year, a Chhattisgarh-based IAS officer, Shiv Anant Tayal, was transferred for questioning the contributions of Jana Sangh ideologue Deendayal Upadhyaya in a Facebook post. The same year the Chhattisgarh government had transferred another IAS officer, Alex Paul Menon, for a Facebook post questioning the judiciary.

Source: The Telegraph February 20, 2017 21:36 UTC