An Indian public official has been sacked for taking an extended holiday … very extended. 

Assistant executive engineer A.K Verma went on leave in 1990 after joining India's central public works department (CPWD) a decade earlier.

24 years later and he kinda just didn’t come back to his desk and because of India’s reknowned bureaucracy they only got around to firing him this week!

Verma was previously ordered to return to work after his requests for additional leave were denied, but it took until 2007 for formal dismissal charges to be brought against him, the ministry said in a statement.