Narayan Pargaien, who works for the local News Express channel, reports on deadly floods from atop a man's shoulders.
"What he did was very inhuman. You cannot ride on someone's back for a story. We terminated him on Tuesday," said Nishant Chaturvedi, channel head at News Express.
Narayan Pargaien, reporting on the flash floods and landslides in Uttarakhand state, triggered outrage after a video clip went viral on the internet showing him speaking into the camera while sitting on the shoulders of a local villager.
Mr Chaturvedi said the channel did not broadcast the clip because it found it "highly distasteful".
"He sent the clip to us. We were shocked to see him sitting on the poor man. You have to be a part of the people and not ride on them," he said.
"He said he thought he could do this. But then it means he did not use his basic sense of judgement as a human being," Mr Chaturvedi said.
Some 1000 people have died in flash floods and landslides caused by heavy downpours in India's Uttarakhand state,
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