SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir government on Saturday sacked four more of its workers for allegedly having links with separatists. Here is the most fresh in a series of strikes by the government to cease the services of the staff “within the curiosity of the nation”.
Pursuing a difficult policy in opposition to what it sees as their anti-nationwide activities, their being within the government provider a threat to the protection and integrity of the country or their violating Authorities Servants Conduct Options, the J&Okay government has within the past three years brushed apart dozens of its workers including lecturers, earnings officers, engineers and policemen.
In one such spell, two sons of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen chief Muhammad Yusuf Shah alias Syed Salahuddin were with nine others terminated “within the curiosity of the nation as per the Constitutional provision” in July closing year.
On Saturday, the Hizb’s chief another son Syed Abdul Mueed working as an IT supervisor in J&Okay Entrepreneurship Model Institute (JKEDI) used to be with spouse of extinct Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) commander Farooq Ahmed Dar alias Bitta Karate, a scientist and a professor at the College of Kashmir fired “within the curiosity of the protection of the whisper” below Article 311 of the Constitution of India.
Dar’s spouse Assabah-ul-Arjamand Khan used to be a Jammu Kashmir Administrative Products and services (JKAS) officer posted as a DPO (Publicity) at the Directorate of Rural Model, Kashmir. Dar who is currently lodged in Delhi’s Tihar jail after his arrest by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in an alleged agonize funding case is accused also of slaying many participants of the minority Kashmiri Pandit neighborhood within the preliminary days of militancy within the Valley.
An an identical suppose issued by the government to sack Mueed, Khan and Dr. Muheet Ahmad Bhat, Scientist-D in Post-Graduate Department of Computer Science and Majid Hussain Qadri, Senior Assistant Professor, Department of Management Studies at College of Kashmir states that Lieutenant Governor is happy after pondering the facts and circumstances of the case(s) and on the inspiration of the details available, that the activities of these officers are similar to to warrant their dismissal from provider. The suppose extra says that below sub-clause (c) of the proviso to clause (2) of Article 311 of the Constitution of India that within the curiosity of the protection of the whisper, it’s no longer expedient to relieve an enquiry within the case(s)”.
Reacting to their dismissal, extinct minister and Other folks’s Convention (PC) chairman, Sajad Gani Lone, tweeted. “Every citizen of India has his or her own rights. A son can not be held to blame for his father or spouse for her husband or a father for his son. Sad – that kinship is feeble as a justification to sack folks. This merely is never any longer correct. In all humility I register my disagreement”.
Broken-down chief minister Mehbooba Mufti and Omar Abdullah possess also within the past criticised the government over such dismissals. Ms. Mufti had after 5 government officers were fired over an identical allegations earlier this year said that these actions are at aimed “offsetting the stability within the administration and disempowering locals”.
The Ministry of Dwelling Affairs (MHA) had told the Parliament in March that “no new guidelines” were notified by the J&Okay administration below which workers can be brushed other than provider if they or their family are came all the strategy by to be “sympathetic” to folks accused below the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) and Public Security Act (PSA).
Minister Of Articulate within the MHA, Nityanand Rai, had whereas responding to a written query in Rajya Sabha on whether the J&Okay administration has notified new guidelines below which workers can be brushed other than provider if they or their family are came all the strategy by to be “sympathetic” to folks accused below the UAPA and the PSA said, “The Authorities of J&Okay has no longer notified any new guidelines on this regard.”
The J&Okay government below Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha, had in April 2020 constituted a Special Task Force (STF) for identifying and scrutinizing its workers excited by any process detrimental to the protection of the country or deemed as anti-nationwide, evoking engaging criticism from diverse political occasions, workers’ change unions and human rights activists.
The J&Okay government had subsequently designated a separate legit committee to blame for scrutinizing and recommending circumstances below Article 311(2)(c) of the Constitution.
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