Lucknow, June 4 -- The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court has dismissed a petition filed by the Uttar Pradesh government seeking restoration of the punishment awarded to a senior woman officer who had made a Facebook post about the Kasganj violence in 2018. A division bench of justices Alok Mathur and Amitabh Kumar Rai passed the judgment on May 29 on a plea filed by UP through additional chief secretary, planning department. The court said the action against deputy director (economic and statistics) Rashmi Varun was taken only on the basis of a newspaper report. It said the authorities failed to take into account her response that the newspaper had not correctly reported her Facebook post. "Once the respondent had dissociated herself from the comments, it was incumbent upon the authorities during the enquiry to verify the actual Facebook comments before proceeding to pass the order of punishment," the bench said. Hence, it dismissed the UP government's plea challenging the UP Public Service Tribunal's decision to set aside the punishment order against Rashmi....