Sources said the file on the issue has been sent to Lt Governor Najeeb Jung for his approval.
They said that the matter was examined in the Home Department and it has found that Swamy, by publishing the alleged article, had committed an act of "gross impropriety" and have tried to "break the secular fabric of India culture".
Sanction was also given against four others in connection with the case which was filed against Swamy in October 2011 by the Crime Branch of Delhi Police on a complaint from the National Commission for Minorities, for writing in July that year that alleged inflammatory article, which a complaint said was "intended to spread communal enmity".