Sinlung /
24 October 2010

Former Mizoram CS Files Defamation Charges

Haukhum Hauzel Aizawl, Oct 24 : Former Mizoram Chief Secretary Haukhum Hauzel has filed a criminal defamation charges in a local court against a person who allegedly tarnished his professional record in an open letter in a local daily.

According to sources close to Mr Hauzel, one Lalhmingthanga, a resident of Chanmari in Aizawl, in an open letter, had alleged that the former did not have any appointment letter from the Ministry of Home Affairs when he became the chief secretary of Mizoram in 2005 because he was ''not qualified'' for the post.

Mr Lalhmingthanga, in the open letter published in 'Evening Post', an Aizawl-based vernacular daily, on August 24, 2010, alleged that Mr Hauzel was not entitled to the pay scale of additional secretary to the Government of India and was deemed ''unfit for a chief secretary by the MHA''.

In response to this open letter, Mr Hauzel had also demanded a public apology from the writer through the newspaper on September nine within ten days.

''One month has already passed after the expiry of the dateline on September 19. So, I do not have any choice than to go to the court to get justice,'' Mr Hauzel said today.

Dismissing the allegations, Mr Hauzel maintained that he got the post of additional secretary to the Government of India from September 8, 2004, and he was appointed as the chief secretary of Mizoram on September 20, 2005.

Mr Hauzel was presented by his lawyer C Lalramzauva. The charges were filed in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate-cum-Senior Civil Judge R Vanlalchami yesterday.

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