Jammu and Kashmir administration on Friday sacked three authorities workers, together with a professor and a policeman, for his or her alleged hyperlinks with terror teams, officers mentioned.
The trio was terminated from providers based mostly on the advice of a delegated committee constituted underneath Article 311 (2) (c) of the Constitution that enables dismissal from service with out an inquiry within the curiosity of the State’s safety.
Those sacked are Altaf Hussain Pandit, chemistry professor at Kashmir University, Mohammed Maqbool Hajam, instructor within the college schooling division, and Ghulam Rasool, a constable with the Jammu and Kashmir Police.
Hussain Pandit is actively related to the proscribed Jamaat-e-Islam (JeI). He had crossed over to Pakistan for terror coaching and remained an energetic terrorist of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front for 3 years earlier than his arrest by the safety forces, someday in 1993.
He continued to be an energetic cadre of JeI and labored as a terror recruiter. Pandit was instrumental in organising stone pelting and violent protests over the killing of terrorists in 2011 and 2014, the officers mentioned.
In 2015, Hussain Pandit grew to become an government member of the Kashmir University Teachers Association and used his place to propagate secessionism amongst college students. He was instrumental in motivating three college students of the Kashmir University to affix terror ranks, they added.
Hajam, a instructor of the college schooling division, was additionally a terror over floor employee (OGW) and he used to radicalise folks, they mentioned.
He was a part of a mob which attacked a police station in Sogam and different authorities buildings, officers mentioned, including that regardless of being a authorities instructor, he was at all times discovered to be concerned in terror actions.
Rasool, a constable with the Jammu and Kashmir Police, was working as an underground supporter of terrorists.
He additionally acted as an informer to terrorists and used to tip-off terrorists and OGWs about anti-terror operations. He used to leak the names of police personnel concerned in anti-terror operations, the officers mentioned.
Rasool was additionally in contact with Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist Mushtaq Ahmad alias Aurangzeb, who has crossed over to Pakistan, they added.
“The recent crackdown is part of the government efforts to detect and mitigate terror elements within the system who somehow managed to sneak in during the previous regimes”, a senior official mentioned.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”