{"id":564901,"date":"2023-03-23T10:39:40","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T05:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=564901"},"modified":"2023-03-23T11:48:25","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T06:18:25","slug":"uppcl-up-engineer-sacked-for-eulogising-osama-bin-laden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/uppcl-up-engineer-sacked-for-eulogising-osama-bin-laden\/","title":{"rendered":"UPPCL: UP engineer sacked for eulogising Osama Bin Laden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Ltd (UPPCL) has terminated the services of an engineer for praising the slain Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>UPPCL Chairman M. Devraj issued Gautam&#8217;s termination order after a probe committee found the latter guilty of &#8220;indulging in an anti-national act that tarnished the image of the department&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>A video of Gautam&#8217;s Kayamganj office with Osama&#8217;s picture hanging in it, had gone viral last year. The caption of the picture called him &#8220;Respected Osama bin Laden, world&#8217;s best engineer&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s termination order after a probe committee found the latter guilty of &#8220;indulging in an anti-national act that tarnished the image of the department&#8221;. A video of Gautam&#8217;s Kayamganj office with Osama&#8217;s picture hanging in it, had gone viral last year. The caption [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,244,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-564901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}