Srinagar: Citing failure of investigation, verification and prosecution, the administration of Jammu & Kashmir led by LG (Lieutenant Governor) Manoj Sinha has sacked four employees over militancy links.
Four persons include KAS officer in Publicity, Directorate of Rural Development, Kashmir, Assabah-ul-Arjamand Khan who is the wife of JKLF’s former militant Farooq Ahmad Dar alias Bitta Karate.
Also, Manager IT, JKEDI Syed Abdul Mueed,who is the son of the United Jehad Council and Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Saluhuddin.
More Read
Dr. Muheet Ahmad Bhat, a scientist-D in the Department of Computer Science, University of Kashmir and P
Majid Hussain Qadri, (Senior Assistant Professor, Department of Management Studies, University of Kashmir),
It is pertinent to mention that all four were terminated under Article 311 of the Constitution of India which deals with the “dismissal, removal or reduction in rank of persons employed in civil capacities under the Union or a State” after holding inquiry against them.
Before these four persons were sacked, over a dozens of Kashmir resident were terminated for militancy links, the termination spree began in April 2021, when the administration formed a special task force to identify government employees involved in ‘anti-national’ activities.
While the law gives “reasonable opportunity of being heard in respect of those charges” to the suspect employees, section 2 (c), which has been invoked by the J&K administration, bypasses the condition of inquiry if “the President or the Governor…is satisfied that in the interest of the security of the State, it is not expedient to hold such inquiry.”
The Article 311 was not applicable to Jammu and Kashmir when the erstwhile state had special autonomous status under the Article 370 of the constitution.
As per sources, Assabah, Bitta Karate’s wife is on top of the list and she came into the spotlight during Karate’s trial.
The official sources said she is a ‘diehard secessionist’ having deep ties with militant outfits and ISI.
“She first got a job in Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Science and Technology-Kashmir in 2003. Her appointment was allegedly backdoor and appeared to have been managed by someone in the administration” sources said.
“It has come to light that between 2003 and 2007, she was absent from work for months together but no action was taken against her.”
“Finally, she was sacked in August 2007. During her absence from work, Assabah travelled to Germany, UK, Helsinki, Sri Lanka and Thailand. Investigation has revealed that she was working as a cash mule for JKLF and while departure was through airports, her arrival in India was mostly through road route of Nepal and Bangladesh,” the sources said.
“The funds that Assabah was couriering to India were pumped in to carry out terror activities.”
About Syed Abdul Mueed, they said, he was suspiciously being appointed in 2012 as an IT consultant on contractual basis by circumventing the rules.
“At least three members of the selection panel comprised officers known to be militant sympathisers. His contractual position was subsequently converted into a permanent one,” sources said.
“No mandatory CID verification was done in Mueed’s case,” they said.
“Since the time of his appointment in 2013 to 2019, at least three terror attacks were executed in and around the JKEDI complex in Pampore and several security force personnel had lost their lives. Mueed played a crucial role in these attacks by giving targets and logistics,” sources alleged.
Another name in the list is Muheet Ahmad Bhat who was at the post of Scientist D in the department of computer sciences of Kashmir University.
On him, it has been said that in the January of 2018, he (Muheet) provided financial assistance stone-throwers and families of militants.
“Muheet was the president and executive member of the Kashmir University Teachers Association from 2017 to 2019. He organised student protests and street protests in 2016 in which hundreds had died and thousands were injured.”
“KUTA had carefully avoided its registration as a society to avoid audit scanner yet continued to use banking channels, he radicalised students for Pakistani propaganda in Kashmir.”
The third sacked government employee Majid Hussain Qadri has been termed as LeT militant before being a student of MBA in Kashmir University in 2001.
They said Qadri’s recruitment case was never sent to the CID for character verification.
“He had contacted two Pakistani LeT militants in August 2001.”
“Because of failure of investigation and prosecution, he was appointed as contractual lecturer in Kashmir University in March 2007 and appointed as the assistant professor in Department of Management Studies, Kashmir University in 2010.”
