The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) has sacked Pankaj Mishra, the constable whose video castigating home minister Rajnath Singh for “not advising” prime minister Narendra Modi “in the right direction” went viral in April. Mishra had posted the video after a relative – also serving in the CRPF – lost his life along with 24 others in a Naxal attack in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma area.

On October 15, a day after his dismissal – reportedly following an internal inquiry ordered after the April incident – Mishra was arrested by the Assam police on the charge of “obscene acts in public, criminal intimidation” under the Indian Penal Code and the Information Technology (IT) Act.

After his video on the Sukma attack went viral, Mishra was asked to present himself at the CRPF headquarters in New Delhi, following which he moved the Delhi high court to seek protection once he surrenders. On the advice of the high court, he surrendered to the CRPF director general on May 6. Pending an internal inquiry, he was transferred to 119 Battalion stationed in the Rowriah area of Jorhat town in Upper Assam.

Though he was learnt to have been warned against posting further videos and comments on social media and his phone was allegedly taken away “by seniors,” on October 7 Mishra posted another video to Facebook from a phone he “borrowed from a friend”.