J&K: Wife Of Bitta Karate, Son Of Pak Hizbul Chief Among Four Govt Employees Sacked Over 'Terror Links'
The four, including the wife of Bitta Karate, have been dismissed from services for alleged terror links.
New Delhi: The Jammu and Kashmir administration has sacked four government employees, including the wife of terrorist 'Bitta Karate' who besides facing terror-funding charges, is an accused in the matter of Kashmiri pandits' killings in the 1990s.
The four have been dismissed from services for terror links, news agency ANI reported citing government sources.
News agency PTI cited officials as informing that Syed Abdul Mueed, son of Pakistan-based Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin, is among the four employees dismissed.
J&K: Wife of terrorist 'Bitta Karate' sacked from government job.#JammuKashmir #BittaKarate #Breakingpic.twitter.com/E5Mb0M8H6F
— ABP LIVE (@abplive) August 13, 2022
Allegations Against Dismissed Govt Employees
All four have been dismissed for allegedly having links with forces working against India and spreading malicious propaganda, officials told PTI.
They have been dismissed under Article 311 of the Constitution that enables the government to sack its employees without any inquiry.
Syed Abdul Mueed, son of Salahuddin (Syed Mohd Yusuf), worked as a Manager (Information and Technology) at the Commerce and Industries Department. He is the third son of the Hizb chief to be sacked from the government job. Syed Ahmed Shakeel and Shahid Yusuf were dismissed from service last year.
PTI cited officials as informing that Mueed has allegedly been found to have a role in three terror attacks on the Jammu and Kashmir Entrepreneurship Development Institute (JKEDI) complex at Sempora in Pampore. His presence in the institution has led to increased sympathy for the secessionist forces, they said.
Assabah-ul-Arjamand Khan, the wife of Farooq Ahmed Dar alias ''Bitta Karate'' and a 2011-batch Jammu and Kashmir Administrative Service officer (JKAS), is alleged to have been found involved in providing false information for seeking a passport.
She is alleged to "have links with foreign people who have been indexed by the Indian security and intelligence to be on the payrolls of the ISI". Besides this, she is reported to be involved in ferrying consignment of money for funding anti-India activities in Jammu and Kashmir, PTI reported the officials as saying.
Also sacked from the government is Dr. Muheet Ahmad Bhat, posted as a scientist in the Post Graduate Department of Computer Science at Kashmir University. He is accused of being involved in propagating secessionist-terrorist agenda in the university by radicalising students for advancing the programme and agenda of Pakistan and its proxies.
The fourth employee sacked is Majid Hussain Qadri, a senior Assistant Professor at Kashmir University, accused of having a long association with terror organisations including the banned Lashker-e-Taiba. He had earlier been booked under the stringent Public Safety Act and figures in a number of FIRs related to various terror cases.
ALSO READ | Salman Rushdie On Ventilator, Likely To Lose An Eye, Liver Damaged After Being Stabbed: Report
About Farooq Ahmed Dar AKA 'Bitta Karate'
Terrorist Farooq Ahmed Dar alias 'Bitta Karate' in a shocking video confession had admitted that the first Kashmiri Pandit he murdered was Satish Tickoo, one of the first victims of terrorism in the Kashmir Valley.
In May this year, the family of Satish Tickoo filed an application to place on record 'Bitta Karate''s video confession. The application was filed through advocate Utsav Bains and supported by activist Vikas Raina.
'Bitta Karate' is accused of killing many other Kashmiri Pandits during the 1990s. A top commander of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front, he was arrested in June 1990 and faces trial over murder and extortion charges.
The former commander was released on bail by a court in Jammu on October 24, 2006, after spending 16 years in various jails. He has been lodged in Tihar jail since 2017 in a case related to terror funding.
40 govt employees dismissed so far
As per PTI, around 40 government employees have been dismissed so far from the services in Jammu and Kashmir.
Prominent among them being the two sons of Salahuddin and tainted deputy superintendent of police Devender Singh (now removed), who was caught with a most wanted terrorist and two others along the Srinagar-Jammu national highway.
Officials stated that the sacking was effected after the Lt governor was satisfied, upon considering facts and circumstances of the cases and based on the information available, that the activities of these employees warrant dismissal from service under provision of Article 311 (2) (C) of the Constitution.
Under this provision, the sacked employees can only approach the High Court with their plea against their dismissal.
The process of dismissal began in April last year, a week after the J&K administration constituted a committee to investigate allegations of involvement of government employees in anti-State activities and recommend dismissal of those found involved.
(With Agency Inputs)
Trending News
Top Headlines
