The Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Ltd (UPPCL) has terminated the services of an engineer for praising the slain Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden.
Ravindra Prakash Gautam, a Sub-Divisional Officer (SDO), had been suspended in June 2022 after he put a picture of Laden at his Kayamganj sub-division-II office in Farrukhabad district.
UPPCL Chairman M. Devraj issued Gautam’s termination order after a probe committee found the latter 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”.
