All of the 4 staff had been dismissed from service beneath Article 311 of the Structure
SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir authorities on Saturday sacked 4 extra of its staff for allegedly having hyperlinks with separatists. That is the most recent in a collection of strikes by the federal government to terminate the companies of the workers “within the curiosity of the nation”.
Pursuing a tricky coverage towards what it sees as their anti-national actions, their being within the authorities service a risk to the safety and integrity of the nation or their violating Authorities Servants Conduct Guidelines, the J&Okay authorities has previously three years dismissed dozens of its staff together with academics, income officers, engineers and policemen.
In a single such spell, two sons of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen chief Muhammad Yusuf Shah alias Syed Salahuddin had been with 9 others terminated “within the curiosity of the nation as per the Constitutional provision” in July final 12 months.
On Saturday, the Hizb’s chief one other son Syed Abdul Mueed working as an IT supervisor in J&Okay Entrepreneurship Improvement Institute (JKEDI) was with spouse of former Jammu Kashmir Liberation Entrance (JKLF) commander Farooq Ahmed Dar alias Bitta Karate, a scientist and a professor on the College of Kashmir fired “within the curiosity of the safety of the state” beneath Article 311 of the Structure of India.
Dar’s partner Assabah-ul-Arjamand Khan was a Jammu Kashmir Administrative Companies (JKAS) officer posted as a DPO (Publicity) on the Directorate of Rural Improvement, Kashmir. Dar who’s at present lodged in Delhi’s Tihar jail after his arrest by the Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) in an alleged terror funding case is accused additionally of slaying many members of the minority Kashmiri Pandit group within the preliminary days of militancy within the Valley.
An similar order issued by the federal government to sack Mueed, Khan and Dr. Muheet Ahmad Bhat, Scientist-D in Publish-Graduate Division of Laptop Science and Majid Hussain Qadri, Senior Assistant Professor, Division of Administration Research at College of Kashmir states that Lieutenant Governor is happy after contemplating the information and circumstances of the case(s) and on the idea of the knowledge out there, that the actions of those officers are resembling to warrant their dismissal from service. The order additional says that beneath sub-clause (c) of the proviso to clause (2) of Article 311 of the Structure of India that within the curiosity of the safety of the state, it isn’t expedient to carry an enquiry within the case(s)”.
Reacting to their dismissal, former minister and Individuals’s Convention (PC) chairman, Sajad Gani Lone, tweeted. “Each 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. Unhappy – that kinship is used as a justification to sack folks. This merely will not be good. In all humility I register my disagreement”.
Former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti and Omar Abdullah have additionally previously criticised the federal government over such dismissals. Ms. Mufti had after 5 authorities officers had been fired over related allegations earlier this 12 months stated that these actions are at aimed “offsetting the stability within the administration and disempowering locals”.
The Ministry of House Affairs (MHA) had knowledgeable the Parliament in March that “no new guidelines” have been notified by the J&Okay administration beneath which staff may be dismissed from service in the event that they or their members of the family are discovered to be “sympathetic” to folks accused beneath the Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act (UAPA) and Public Security Act (PSA).
Minister Of State within the MHA, Nityanand Rai, had whereas responding to a written question in Rajya Sabha on whether or not the J&Okay administration has notified new guidelines beneath which staff may be dismissed from service in the event that they or their members of the family are discovered to be “sympathetic” to folks accused beneath the UAPA and the PSA stated, “The Authorities of J&Okay has not notified any new guidelines on this regard.”
The J&Okay authorities beneath Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha, had in April 2020 constituted a Particular Job Power (STF) for figuring out and scrutinizing its staff concerned in any exercise detrimental to the safety of the nation or deemed as anti-national, evoking sharp criticism from numerous political events, staff’ commerce unions and human rights activists.
The J&Okay authorities had subsequently designated a separate official committee chargeable for scrutinizing and recommending instances beneath Article 311(2)(c) of the Structure.