UPPCL: UP engineer sacked for eulogising Osama Bin Laden
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”.
