Indian police lodged an FIR against a former civil servant kannan Gopinathan, who resigned last year as a protest for the rights of the people of Kashmir.
According to Indian media, a police case has been registered against Kannan Gopinathan, who resigned from the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) last August, for not joining duty as directed by the government amid the coronavirus pandemic.
An FIR was registered against him on April 21 at Moti Daman police station in the Union territories of Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli, under the Epidemic Diseases Act and Disaster Management Act police said.
Police inspector Liladhar Makwana said he is also facing a charge under Section 188 of the IPC for refusing to obey a government order.
Gopinathan, belongs to Kerala, had quit the service over “denial of freedom to the people of Jammu and Kashmir”.
On April 9, the Union Territory’s administration had sent a communication to Gopinathan, asking him to join duty on the ground that his resignation had not been accepted yet.
