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NEW DELHI: Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha has ordered the dismissal of four J&K government employees – including a lab bearer in higher education department who is a close aide and also father-in-law of dreaded Pakistani terrorist and founder of Lashker offshoot The Resistance Front (TRF) Sajid Jutt – for allegedly aiding Pakistan-based terror outfits, providing logistics to terrorists and furthering secessionist agenda.
Apart from lab bearer Salam Rather who helped Jutt execute political killings in J&K between 1998 and facilitating his escape to Pakistan in 2005, those sacked under Article 311(2)(c) of the Constitution “in the interest of security of the State” include Nisar-ul-Hassan, Asst Professor (Medicine) at the state-owned SMHS Hospital, Srinagar who was “furthering separatist ideology within the medical professionals of J&K”.
Also shown the door are J&K police constable Abdul Majeed Bhat who misused his official position to carry out narcotics trade for funding terror and Farooq Ahmad Mir, a teacher who received terror training in Pakistan in 1990-91 and later emerged as a key functionary of separatist outfit Tehreek e Hurriyat. Mir had allegedly played an important role in the 2008 Amarnath land row agitation and the 2016 protests over the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist Burhan Wani.
Sources shared with TOI on Wednesday that over 50 J&K government employees, who were allegedly “helping Pakistani terror outfits, propagating terrorist ideology, raising terror finances and furthering secessionist agenda, all while drawing salary from the public exchequer”, have been sacked under Article 311(2)(c) in the last three years as part of “zero-tolerance approach to terror”.
The dossier on Rather, whose job profile was to prepare laboratory samples for testing and maintain lab records of his college, states that he emerged instead as a powerful activist of Hizbul Mujahideen in Kulgam. He established contact with Habibullah Malik alias Sajid Jutt, from Kasoor, Pakistan Punjab, and helped him build a huge network of overground workers, sympathisers, logistic supporters and recruiters in Frisal, Yaripora, Kulgam, Bijbehara and Zainapora. Sources said he cemented his association with Jutt by offering him his adopted daughter in marriage. He arranged several safehouses for Jutt, one of which he escaped from in 2005, never to return to J&K. Rather and Jutt continue to maintain contact; Rather visited Jutt in Pakistan in February 2016 for 18 days and in July 2017 for 10 days.
The dossier on Nisar ul Hassan, Assistant Professor (Medicine) at SMHS Hospital, says he was a self-styled but unelected president of Doctors Association of Kashmir (DAK) for the last 8 years. Sources said he, under the patronage of Pakistani proxies operating in J&K, has been continuously fuelling and furthering separatist ideology within the medical professionals of J&K. He has been radicalising J&K youth by espousing secessionist ideology and glamourising terrorism through statements and published articles.
J&K police constable Abdul Majeed Bhat, a resident of Kupwara, is accused of misusing his official position and connections to further narcotics trade in Kupwara, the proceeds of which were used to fund terrorism and terrorist outfits operating in J&K. He was arrested in a drug trafficking case in 2022 and is in judicial custody till date. He would collect narcotics sent by Pakistan through Hizb terrorist Shakir Khan and brought from Uri border by associates. Sale proceeds of these drugs would be sent back to Pakistan through cross-border cash transfers, and later used by Pakistan-based terrorist handlers for sustaining terrorists infiltrating into J&K and to keep the terror eco-system up and running.
Now-dismissed Farooq Ahmad Mir would openly preach and practise secessionist ideology while drawing salary as a government teacher. As a senior functionary of Tehreek e Hurriyat, he would organise protests and programmes for the outfit. A senior officer said he played a key role in the 2008 Amarnath land row agitation and the 2016 protests against Burhan Wani killing. He was arrested in 2010 for instigating violence in Kupwara and spent 6 months in Kot Bhalwal jail, Jammu before his PSA detention order was quashed by the courts. He continued his secessionist activities nevertheless, instigating violent mobs during the 2016 protests.
“Despite being detained under PSA and arrested many times, no disciplinary action was taken against him…he was never marked as absent despite being in jail for six months, and was paid full salary,” an officer told TOI.
Apart from lab bearer Salam Rather who helped Jutt execute political killings in J&K between 1998 and facilitating his escape to Pakistan in 2005, those sacked under Article 311(2)(c) of the Constitution “in the interest of security of the State” include Nisar-ul-Hassan, Asst Professor (Medicine) at the state-owned SMHS Hospital, Srinagar who was “furthering separatist ideology within the medical professionals of J&K”.
Also shown the door are J&K police constable Abdul Majeed Bhat who misused his official position to carry out narcotics trade for funding terror and Farooq Ahmad Mir, a teacher who received terror training in Pakistan in 1990-91 and later emerged as a key functionary of separatist outfit Tehreek e Hurriyat. Mir had allegedly played an important role in the 2008 Amarnath land row agitation and the 2016 protests over the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist Burhan Wani.
Sources shared with TOI on Wednesday that over 50 J&K government employees, who were allegedly “helping Pakistani terror outfits, propagating terrorist ideology, raising terror finances and furthering secessionist agenda, all while drawing salary from the public exchequer”, have been sacked under Article 311(2)(c) in the last three years as part of “zero-tolerance approach to terror”.
The dossier on Rather, whose job profile was to prepare laboratory samples for testing and maintain lab records of his college, states that he emerged instead as a powerful activist of Hizbul Mujahideen in Kulgam. He established contact with Habibullah Malik alias Sajid Jutt, from Kasoor, Pakistan Punjab, and helped him build a huge network of overground workers, sympathisers, logistic supporters and recruiters in Frisal, Yaripora, Kulgam, Bijbehara and Zainapora. Sources said he cemented his association with Jutt by offering him his adopted daughter in marriage. He arranged several safehouses for Jutt, one of which he escaped from in 2005, never to return to J&K. Rather and Jutt continue to maintain contact; Rather visited Jutt in Pakistan in February 2016 for 18 days and in July 2017 for 10 days.
The dossier on Nisar ul Hassan, Assistant Professor (Medicine) at SMHS Hospital, says he was a self-styled but unelected president of Doctors Association of Kashmir (DAK) for the last 8 years. Sources said he, under the patronage of Pakistani proxies operating in J&K, has been continuously fuelling and furthering separatist ideology within the medical professionals of J&K. He has been radicalising J&K youth by espousing secessionist ideology and glamourising terrorism through statements and published articles.
J&K police constable Abdul Majeed Bhat, a resident of Kupwara, is accused of misusing his official position and connections to further narcotics trade in Kupwara, the proceeds of which were used to fund terrorism and terrorist outfits operating in J&K. He was arrested in a drug trafficking case in 2022 and is in judicial custody till date. He would collect narcotics sent by Pakistan through Hizb terrorist Shakir Khan and brought from Uri border by associates. Sale proceeds of these drugs would be sent back to Pakistan through cross-border cash transfers, and later used by Pakistan-based terrorist handlers for sustaining terrorists infiltrating into J&K and to keep the terror eco-system up and running.
Now-dismissed Farooq Ahmad Mir would openly preach and practise secessionist ideology while drawing salary as a government teacher. As a senior functionary of Tehreek e Hurriyat, he would organise protests and programmes for the outfit. A senior officer said he played a key role in the 2008 Amarnath land row agitation and the 2016 protests against Burhan Wani killing. He was arrested in 2010 for instigating violence in Kupwara and spent 6 months in Kot Bhalwal jail, Jammu before his PSA detention order was quashed by the courts. He continued his secessionist activities nevertheless, instigating violent mobs during the 2016 protests.
“Despite being detained under PSA and arrested many times, no disciplinary action was taken against him…he was never marked as absent despite being in jail for six months, and was paid full salary,” an officer told TOI.
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