Varanasi: UPPCL sacks executive engineer on charges of irregularities, corruption

Lucknow: The UP Power Corporation Ltd (UPPCL) on Friday terminated services of an executive engineer posted in Varanasi after a probe committee established charges of irregularities and corruption against him.

Action against engineer Sunil Kumar Gupta, who is currently attached to the Varansi discoms, comes after he failed to provide a satisfactory reply to charges farmed against him. “We have sacked Sunil Kumar Gupta after charges against him were established beyond any doubt,” UPPCL chairman M Devrak said while confirming it.

There are charges that Gupta, who was supposed to make physical inspection of two factories and send a report to his bosses before the Varanasi discom, ordered purchase of material from the same factories, manipulated his physical presence and reported to have favoured the suppliers.