Dimapur, Feb. 18 -- The Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) said the recent filing of an FIR by the CBI against additional secretary of the Nagaland agriculture department and two other high-ranking officials working in the Fostering Climate-Resilient Upland Farming System (FOCUS) project in the state in a bribery case involving more than Rs 2 crore was on expected lines considering the "stranglehold" of corruption at all levels of governance in the state authored and patronised by the "morally bankrupt" oppositionless state government.

The CBI filed the FIR against additional secretary Jitendra Gupta and two other officials working in the FOCUS project for allegedly receiving bribes of more than Rs 2 crore.

According to reports,...