New Delhi, Feb. 20: The Union home ministry today hauled up senior IPS officer Satyendra Garg who had spoken out against the criminal justice system that led to the detention of two Kashmiri youths for more than a decade before they were cleared of terror charges.

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.

"The administration swung into action after the news report ( The Telegraph carried on Monday) went viral on social media where people demanded the prosecution of the cops guilty of framing the youths," the official added.

Mohammad Rafiq Shah and Mohammad Hussain Fazli, implicated in the pre-Diwali blasts in Delhi in 2005 that killed 67 people, were acquitted on February 16 by a Delhi court that ruled the evidence against them was "fabricated and flimsy".

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".

The ministry official said what Garg posted was "hard facts but it proved to be a double whammy for the ministry" after the court acquitted the youths last week. Delhi police report to Union home minister Rajnath Singh.

Garg couldn't be contacted today. His mobile phone was switched off.

Sources said although the Narendra Modi government has encouraged the use of social media by bureaucrats, officials were expected not to post adverse comments about policy matters and internal issues.

"The service rules only mention dos and don'ts for print and electronic media. Social media is a relatively new entity. Now the government wants to rein in officials from posting controversial posts on social media. The rules will be framed soon," said an official in the department of personnel and training, the cadre-controlling authority for bureaucrats.

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.

In BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh, Ajay Gangwar, an IAS officer, was hauled uplast year for praising Jawaharlal Nehru.