Lucknow News: IRS officer suspended after ‘violent’ assualt on junior colleugue over cricket team captaincy

Indian Revenue Services (IRS) officer Yogendra Kumar Mishra has been suspended on 4 June – six days after he allegedly assaulted a junior officer inside an Income Tax office during a meeting in the Uttar Pradesh capital Lucknow.

The suspension order reads that a criminal case is under investigation against Mishra, a 2014-batch IRS officer currently posted in Kashipur, Uttarakhand as Joint Commissioner of Income Tax. 

Mishra has been attached with Kolkata officer under the jurisdiction of the Principal Chief Commissioner of Income Tax (CCA), West Bengal and Sikkim Region, pending inquiry. Mishra has been asked not to leave headquarters without prior permission. 

The move comes in the wake of serious allegations by Gaurav Garg, a 2016-batch IRS officer posted in Lucknow. Garg  filed an FIR at Hazratganj police station in Lucknow on Friday in which he accused Mishra of a violent, premeditated attack on him on 29 May during a closed-door departmental meeting attended by senior officials.

The incident is rooted in a dispute over the captaincy of a departmental cricket team earlier this year and involved physical assault, attempted strangulation, and an attempt to stab with a broken glass tumbler, according to reports.