India, June 13 -- A junior superintendent at a government taluk office in Kerala's Kasaragod district was on Friday suspended for making disparaging and casteist comments about the Malayali nurse who was killed in Thursday's Air India mishap in Ahmedabad.

Revenue minister K Rajan said he ordered the immediate suspension of A Pavithran from service after being told about the latter's "insulting comments" on Facebook about Ranjitha G Nair, the Pullad-native nurse who was among the casualties in the AI-171 crash.

"This is a despicable act on the part of the deputy tahsildar," the minister said. Pavithran worked as a deputy tehsildar at the Vellarikund taluk office in Kasaragod.

Following the incident, it came to light that Pavithran was a...