New Delhi: President Ram Nath Kovind has revoked the order suspending Department of Telecommunication official Ashish Joshi who had been penalised in 2019 for asking for action to be taken against a video circulated by Delhi politician Kapil Mishra, which was allegedly inflammatory.Hindustan Times has reported that while the bureaucrat is once again working at DoT, Joshi has not agreed to make comments on the development.As The Wire had reported in 2019, Joshi had complained to the commissioner of the Delhi Police about a “highly incendiary” video posted by then Aam Aadmi Party leader Kapil Mishra.Mishra had, on February 24, 2019 uploaded to Twitter a video of himself reciting a poem, in which he vowed to “wage war” against “traitors” who would be “dragged out of their homes onto the streets”.Among “traitors” Mishra named in the video were journalist Barkha Dutt, activists Kavita Krishnan and Shehla Rashid, politician Navjot Singh Sidhu and actor Naseeruddin Shah.Several of them posted on Twitter about the video, which was eventually taken down by the social media site.Joshi, then the controller of communications account in Dehradun, wrote to the then Delhi Commissioner of Police Amulya Patnaik to register his concern.Department of Telecommunications circular against the video uploaded by Mr. Kapil Mishra. It is copied to @DelhiPolice as it violates IPC and IT Act provisions. pic.twitter.com/tXJLK62QVa— Shehla Rashid (@Shehla_Rashid) February 25, 2019“The content of the video is self-explanatory and violates [the] Indian Penal Code and IT Act,” Joshi had noted in his letter.On February 26, 2019, shortly after Joshi’s letter began to be widely shared, Mishra tweeted that the IAS officer had been suspended. HT has reported that the telecommunication department had charged Joshi for allegedly “misusing official letterhead for filing a complaint” against Mishra and also issuing orders to telecom operators on offensive messages with “malafide intent without having any jurisdiction or making any advance preparation to address complaints that would come in response to the order.”The latter was an ostensible reference to Joshi having also reportedly issued an earlier order to telecom operators to crack down on “offensive or obscene messages” after journalists Ravish Kumar, Abhisar Sharma and others began receiving threats and obscenities from strangers and set up a helpline to receive complaints against such customers.Mishra, eventually, went on to leave AAP and join the Bharatiya Janata Party, on whose behalf he made several controversial remarks that have made headlines.In 2020, a speech he gave in northeast Delhi’s Maujpur just before communal violence erupted, and where he threatened to take the law into his own hands if the police did not clear out anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act protesters, are believed to have played a triggering role in the riots.Former Delhi Police commissioner Ajai Raj Sharma told The Wire that Mishra should have been arrested for what he said but no such action has been taken a year and a half since the riots.