2 govt employees sacked in J&K, takes number of terminations without hearing to 76; PDP says ‘brazen overreach’

On Friday, Abdul Rahim Naika and Zahir Abbas were terminated from their services “in the involvement of the information of the state”.

Citing accusation from apical instrumentality enforcement agencies of Jammu and Kashmir regarding their alleged connections to the militant outfit Hizbul Mujahideen, Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha terminated the 2 from their services successful the J&K government.

While Naika is simply a pharmacist successful the Health and Medical Education Department, posted successful Kulgam, Abbas is simply a authorities schoolhouse teacher astatine the Kishtwar territory of the Jammu region.

Government sources assertion Naika’s links with Hizbul Mujahideen were “unearthed” erstwhile constabulary officials started investigating the sidesplitting of a politically affiliated individual, Ghulam Hassan Lone from Devsar, successful Kulgam successful August 2021.

According to sources, Naika allegedly “strengthened and proliferated the conducive ecosystem for secessionism and terrorism, not lone successful his section country of Kulgam but besides successful the neighbouring territory of Shopian and Anantnag”.

After Ghulam Hassan Lone’s killing, the constabulary probe tracked the footprints of OGWs oregon overground workers who were allegedly providing logistical enactment to terrorists.

Zahir Abbas, a nonmigratory of Badhat Sargot successful Kishtwar who was appointed arsenic a teacher successful 2012 and posted astatine Government High School, Bugrana, was arrested successful September 2020 for allegedly harbouring 3 progressive terrorists of Hizbul Mujahideen. He is presently lodged successful Central Jail, Kot Balwal.

Earlier this month, erstwhile main curate and Peoples Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti wrote to Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, seeking an contiguous reappraisal of the termination of authorities employees dismissed nether Article 311(2)(C) by the J&K administration.

“The abrupt dismissal of authorities employees without owed process, a signifier that started since 2019, has near galore families devastated and, successful immoderate cases, destitute,” Mufti wrote, demanding that the authorities acceptable up a committee to reappraisal the termination cases.

Leader of the PDP Legislative Party Waheed ur Rehman Para wrote connected X, “It’s shocking however the authorities acts arsenic judge, jury, and executioner, denying the aggrieved adjacent a due hearing. Such brazen overreach is unacceptable and indispensable stop.”

He besides attacked Chief Minister Omar Abdullah stating that since the CM heads the General Administration Department, his “silence connected these terminations cannot beryllium justified”.