Prez revokes suspension of DoT official who sought action against Kapil Mishra

President Ram Nath Kovind has revoked the suspension of Department of Telecommunication (DoT) officer Ashish Joshi, who was suspended over two years ago after he sought action against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Kapil Mishra for allegedly circulating an “incendiary” video.

In an order dated October 14, the ministry of telecommunications stated that the controller of communication accounts in Uttarakhand, who was suspended on February 26, 2019, had been reinstated.

Joshi, a 1992-batch Indian Post and Telecommunication Accounts and Finance Service officer, was suspended in February after he approached the Delhi Police to take action against Mishra for circulating a video on social media platforms that “highly incendiary video, provoking people to attack some citizens”.