Four govt employees sacked for anti-national activities in J&K
A police constable, a laboratory bearer, a teacher, and an assistant professor of medicine were terminated
Updated: Nov 23rd, 2023
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As incidents from the valley continue to make headlines, an alleged anti-national affair has come to light. On Nov 22, the Jammu and Kashmir government dismissed four of its employees for anti-national activities.
Invoking Article 311 (2) (c) of the Constitution, the J&K government dismissed four employees, including a police constable, a laboratory bearer, a teacher, and an assistant professor of medicine.
The four sacked govt employees
Among the four sacked, were the president of the Doctors Association of Kashmir (DAK), Dr Nisar-ul-Hassan, Abdul Salam Rather, a laboratory bearer in higher education, a police constable, Abdul Majeed Bhat, and Farooq Ahmad Mir, a teacher from Kupwara.
“The dismissal of these government employees follows their involvement with the forces that work against India by spreading malicious propaganda,” officials said.
The process of dismissal of government employees was started in J&K in 2022 when the UT government formed a committee to investigate allegations of government employees’ involvement in anti-national activities.
The committee was empowered to recommend the dismissal of such employees from government service.
So far, 50 government employees, against whom the committee found sufficient evidence, have been sacked under Article 311 (2) (c) which states that an enquiry can be done on civil servants for the interest of the security of the state.
Who is Farooq Ahmad Mir?
The teacher among the sacked employees, a resident of Kupwara, allegedly obtained terror training in 1990–91 at an ISIS camp in Pakistan and was arrested by security forces in 1991 as a top commander of the terror organisation Hizbul Mujahideen.
Despite having an apparent radical background of terrorism, Mir was recruited as a class-6 employee in the education department in 1994 by the J&K government, after his release in 1993.
He became a government teacher in 2007. However, after getting a government job, he was not engaged in anti-national activities but reportedly had a radical ideology. Mir was also a supporter of the separatist outfit Tehreek-e-Hurriyat. Notably, he was a sympathiser of Jamaat-e-Islami.
(With inputs from IANS)
