UP: IRS Yogendra Mishra suspended following assault on colleague Gaurav Garg in Lucknow

IRS Yogendra Mishra has been suspended in the case of assault on Indian Revenue Service officer Gaurav Garg. Read further on Dynamite News:

Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government has taken a big action in the case of assault on Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer Gaurav Garg in Lucknow.

Indian Revenue Service officer and his colleague Yogendra Mishra, accused of assaulting Gaurav Garg, has been suspended on Wednesday.

The video of assault on IRS officer Gaurav Garg went viral on social media.

This incident of assault inside the office took place on 29 May at the Income Tax office located in Narhi. There was a stir due to the fight between the two officers a few days ago.

Gaurav Garg is currently posted as Deputy Commissioner of Lucknow Income Tax Department while the suspended accused Yogendra Mishra is Assistant Commissioner.

After the assault incident, accused Yogendra Mishra was attached to Bengal-Sikkim region.

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

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

Garg alleged that Mishra, who was earlier transferred to Uttarakhand over similar complaints, stormed into the sixth-floor meeting hall, abused him, and attacked him in full view of Commissioner Richa Rastogi and Additional Commissioner Shourya Shashwat Shukla. Police were alerted, and Garg was rushed to Civil Hospital.

Based on his complaint, police registered a case under multiple sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), including attempt to murder, criminal intimidation, obstruction of duty, and relevant sections of the Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act.

Meanwhile, Mishra took to X (formerly Twitter), claiming he was the target of a vendetta campaign led by Garg, alleging that his efforts to expose lapses in tax investigations during his tenure in Kanpur were being suppressed through police and media pressure.

He described the cricket-related dispute as a minor matter that was resolved amicably.