Kerala official suspended over offensive post on plane crash victim

A government employee in Kerala has been suspended for making an offensive comment on Facebook about a Kerala nurse who died in the Ahmedabad plane crash.

A Pavithran, a junior superintendent at the Vellarikundu taluk office in Kasaragod district, was suspended on Friday after he mocked Ranjitha, a nurse from Pathanamthitta, who was among the victims of the crash.