Crackdown on govt workers: Jammu and Kashmir sacks son of Hizb chief Salahuddin, three others

By PTI

SRINAGAR: Continuing its crackdown on authorities workers, the Lt Governor administration in Jammu and Kashmir has sacked 4 authorities workers together with Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin’s son and arrested JKLF chief Farooq Ahmed Dar aka Bita Karate’s spouse on fees of being concerned in ‘anti-national’ actions.

All 4 workers have been dismissed from service below Article 311 of the Constitution which permits the federal government to sack an individual employed in civil capacities below Union or a State with out an inquiry.

Syed Abdul Mueed, Manager, Information and Technology at Department of Industries and Commerce, is the son of Syed Salahuddin, the Pakistan-based chief of banned terror outfit Hizbul Mujahideen.

Farooq Ahmed Dar alias Bitta Karate is at present in judicial custody in terror funding instances, officers stated. His spouse Assabah-ul-Arjamand Khan, a Jammu and Kashmir Administrative Services officer, was posted within the Directorate of Rural Development.

The others dismissed are Dr Muheet Ahmad Bhat, a scientist who works within the Post-Graduate Department of Computer Science on the University of Kashmir; and Majid Hussain Qadiri, who’s a senior assistant professor within the Department of Management Studies on the University of Kashmir

The actions of those workers had come to the adversarial discover of regulation enforcement and intelligence businesses, as they’ve been discovered concerned in actions prejudicial to the pursuits of the safety of the State, official sources claimed.

Reacting to the sacking of workers, Peoples Conference chairman and former minister Sajjad Gani Lone remarked that it was unhappy that ‘kindship is used as justification to sack folks.

“Every citizen of India has his or her personal rights. A son can’t be held chargeable for his father or spouse for her husband or a father for his son”, Lone stated.

This merely just isn’t good. In all humility I register my disagreement, he wrote in a tweet.

Over three dozen workers have been sacked by the federal government to date utilizing Article 311 (c) of the structure.

They have been terminated on suggestions of the Special Task Force constituted by the J&Ok authorities.

In April final 12 months, J&Ok authorities had fashioned a Special Task Force, which was created to scrutinise authorities workers suspected of actions requiring motion below Article 311(2).

After the abrogation of Articles 370 and 35A and bifurcation of the J&Ok state by the Centre on August 5, 2019, the J&Ok authorities has gone robust towards its workers and has additionally amended their service guidelines.

The J&Ok authorities has amended Article 226 (2) of the Jammu and Kashmir Civil Service Regulations (CSR) for a provision to retire at any time any authorities servant within the public curiosity after he/she has accomplished 22 years of service or attained 48 years of age.

SRINAGAR: Continuing its crackdown on authorities workers, the Lt Governor administration in Jammu and Kashmir has sacked 4 authorities workers together with Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin’s son and arrested JKLF chief Farooq Ahmed Dar aka Bita Karate’s spouse on fees of being concerned in ‘anti-national’ actions.

All 4 workers have been dismissed from service below Article 311 of the Constitution which permits the federal government to sack an individual employed in civil capacities below Union or a State with out an inquiry.

Syed Abdul Mueed, Manager, Information and Technology at Department of Industries and Commerce, is the son of Syed Salahuddin, the Pakistan-based chief of banned terror outfit Hizbul Mujahideen.

Farooq Ahmed Dar alias Bitta Karate is at present in judicial custody in terror funding instances, officers stated. His spouse Assabah-ul-Arjamand Khan, a Jammu and Kashmir Administrative Services officer, was posted within the Directorate of Rural Development.

The others dismissed are Dr Muheet Ahmad Bhat, a scientist who works within the Post-Graduate Department of Computer Science on the University of Kashmir; and Majid Hussain Qadiri, who’s a senior assistant professor within the Department of Management Studies on the University of Kashmir

The actions of those workers had come to the adversarial discover of regulation enforcement and intelligence businesses, as they’ve been discovered concerned in actions prejudicial to the pursuits of the safety of the State, official sources claimed.

Reacting to the sacking of workers, Peoples Conference chairman and former minister Sajjad Gani Lone remarked that it was unhappy that ‘kindship is used as justification to sack folks.

“Every citizen of India has his or her personal rights. A son can’t be held chargeable for his father or spouse for her husband or a father for his son”, Lone stated.

This merely just isn’t good. In all humility I register my disagreement, he wrote in a tweet.

Over three dozen workers have been sacked by the federal government to date utilizing Article 311 (c) of the structure.

They have been terminated on suggestions of the Special Task Force constituted by the J&Ok authorities.

In April final 12 months, J&Ok authorities had fashioned a Special Task Force, which was created to scrutinise authorities workers suspected of actions requiring motion below Article 311(2).

After the abrogation of Articles 370 and 35A and bifurcation of the J&Ok state by the Centre on August 5, 2019, the J&Ok authorities has gone robust towards its workers and has additionally amended their service guidelines.

The J&Ok authorities has amended Article 226 (2) of the Jammu and Kashmir Civil Service Regulations (CSR) for a provision to retire at any time any authorities servant within the public curiosity after he/she has accomplished 22 years of service or attained 48 years of age.