Lagatar24 Desk
Srinagar, Aug 13: Four government officials have been fired by the Jammu and Kashmir government for having ties to terrorist organisations on Saturday.
IAS officer Assabah Arjumand Khan, the wife of Kashmiri separatist Bitta Karate, who is accused of killing Kashmiri Pandits and is facing terror charges, was one of the fired employees.
Syed Abdul Mueed, Manager at Information and Technology at the Department of Industries and Commerce, who is the son of Syed Salahuddin, the chief of terror group Hizbul Mujahideen, has also been sacked by the J&K administration.
The sources made it clear that the four people were let go from their jobs because of their ties to terrorism. An official statement is awaited on terminations from the government.
The others dismissed include Dr Muheet Ahmad Bhat, Scientist; and Majid Hussain Qadiri (senior Assistant Professor) at Kashmir University.
All four employees were fired from their jobs According to Article 311 of the Constitution, which gives the government the right to fire employees without conducting an inquiry.
In a disturbing video confession, terrorist Farooq Ahmed Dar, or “Bitta Karate,” claimed that Satish Tickoo, one of the earliest terrorist victims in the Kashmir Valley, was the first Kashmiri Pandit he had killed.
The family of Satish Tickoo submitted a request to capture Bitta Karate’s video confession in May of this year. In the 1990s, Bitta Karate is blamed for the deaths of numerous other Kashmiri Pandits.
A professor from the University of Kashmir was one of three government workers fired by the J&K administration in May. They were fired after Lt. Governor Manoj Sinha declared them a “threat to the security of the state.”
Further, the administration claimed that an investigation into their actions was not “required”. About 40 government workers have been let go in the last year in Jammu and Kashmir.
