DIMAPUR, JUNE 5 (MExN): The Against Corruption and Unabated Taxation (ACAUT) Nagaland has filed an FIR against the NSCN (IM) Town Commander, Mokokchung Town for allegedly “demanding 24% of staff salary deduction from the office of the Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Mokokchung, and thereafter issuing individual demand letters to all the 70 primary health centres and sub-centres under CMO, Mokokchung district.”
The FIR, dated June 2, 2016 was filed at Mokokchung Police Station (1), asking that the matter be “thoroughly probed and the culprit nabbed.”
In a press release to the media, the ACAUT Nagaland urged the Mokokchung Police to “carry out the arrest without fear or favour.” It further appealed to the HoDs/DDOs at the directorate office as well as in the districts to refrain from deducting the salaries of their employees to “prevent the unpleasant situation of FIRs being registered against them.”
ACAUT Nagaland informed that it had already filed a FIR complaint in the Zunheboto police station against a certain HoD of the district for which the Zunheboto police is investigating the case.
“However, the ACAUT Nagaland would like to make it clear that it takes no pleasure in filing FIRs against government officials and therefore a time period of 1 week is being given to all the HoDs/DDOs to return the entire amount deducted under 24% tax demand to their respective employees failing which FIRs would be registered irrespective of the reputation of the concerned officials,” it cautioned.
