India, March 5 -- Hours after chief minister Bhagwant Mann issued a stern warning to protesting revenue officials, the Punjab government suspended 15 tehsildars and naib tehsildars, including Punjab Revenue Officers' Association chief Lachman Singh Randhawa, with immediate effect for not performing their official duty.

Following the move, the Joint Action Committee of the revenue department decided to proceed on mass leave from Wednesday. Tejinder Singh, convener of the action committee, said all the four cadres of state government working in the revenue department, including tehsildars, naib tehsildars, kanungos, patwaris and employees of deputy commissioner offices across the state will go on mass leave against the "dictatorial" attitu...