KANPUR: The UP Power Corporation Ltd has sacked an engineer for euoliginsing the slain international terrorist Osama bin Laden. Sub-divisional officer Ravindra Prakash Gautam, had been suspended in June 2022 after he put a picture of the al-Qaeda chief at his Kayamganj subdivision-II office in Farrukhabad.
UPPCL chairman M Devraj issued his termination order on Monday, after a probe committee found him guilty of “indulging in an anti-national act that tarnished the image of the department”.
A video of Gautam’s Kayamganj office with Osama’s picture hanging in it had gone viral last year. The caption of the picture called him “Respected Osama bin Laden, world’s best engineer”. His colleagues said that he used to idolise the former al-Qaeda chief as he had an engineering degree. Gautam also accepted that the video was true.
Managing director of Dakshinanchal Vidyut Vitran Nigam, Amit Kishore, said Gautam was suspended immediately and a probe initiated against him. The inquiry committee of DVVNL levelled several other charges against him.
Gautam said that when many people consider Gandhi Ji’s killer Godse as their idol, then why can’t he consider Osama as his idol?
UPPCL chairman M Devraj issued his termination order on Monday, after a probe committee found him guilty of “indulging in an anti-national act that tarnished the image of the department”.
A video of Gautam’s Kayamganj office with Osama’s picture hanging in it had gone viral last year. The caption of the picture called him “Respected Osama bin Laden, world’s best engineer”. His colleagues said that he used to idolise the former al-Qaeda chief as he had an engineering degree. Gautam also accepted that the video was true.
Managing director of Dakshinanchal Vidyut Vitran Nigam, Amit Kishore, said Gautam was suspended immediately and a probe initiated against him. The inquiry committee of DVVNL levelled several other charges against him.
Gautam said that when many people consider Gandhi Ji’s killer Godse as their idol, then why can’t he consider Osama as his idol?