Jammu and Kashmir lieutenant governor Manoj Sinha sacks 3 authorities workers for alleged terror acts | India Information

NEW DELHI: Jammu and Kashmir LG Manoj Sinha on Saturday ordered the sacking of three J&Ok govt workers — a police constable, a trainer and an orderly within the forest division — for alleged terror actions that embody arranging weapons and offering targets for terror assaults in addition to fuelling violent protests within the Valley, all on the behest of handlers primarily based in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).
The three terminated staffers — police constable Firdous Ahmad Bhat, trainer Mohammad Ashraf Bhat and orderly within the forest division Nisar Ahmad Khan — had been dismissed beneath Article 311 2(c) of the Structure of India. Firdous and Ashraf are presently lodged in Kot Bhalwal jail, Jammu and Reasi district jail respectively in separate terror circumstances, whereas Nisar had earlier served detention for eight months beneath the Public Security Act (PSA).
The termination orders had been signed by the LG a day after he chaired a safety overview in Jammu and directed the police and safety companies to step up anti-terror operations by specializing in not simply neutralising terrorists but additionally dismantling the fear eco-system that features terror sympathisers, moles and violence mongers embedded throughout the J&Ok administration.
J&Ok police constable Firdous Ahmad Bhat was engaged as a particular police officer (SPO) in 2005 and have become a constable in 2011. He was posted on the digital surveillance unit of J&Ok police however began working for Lashker e Taiba.
Firdous was arrested in Could 2024 in a case referring to a plot to assault non-locals and vacationers in Anantnag. Firdous had tasked two LeT terrorists – Omar and Aquib — to offer arms and ammunition to 2 arrested terrorists, Waseem Shah and Adnan Beigh, for the assaults.
“A substantial amount of arms together with pistols, ammunition, explosives and narcotics was recovered from Firdous’s residential quarter in a police housing colony in Qamarwari, Srinagar and one other home in Ganie Mohalla, Mattan, Anantnag. Charas weighing 3 kg seized from his residence was dropped by ‘most-wanted’, PoK-based LeT terrorist Sajid Jutt alias Saifullah by means of a drone in Samba a couple of days earlier.
Investigation additional revealed that Firdous Bhat was a detailed affiliate of Sajid Jutt and had additionally labored for Hizbul Mujahideen’s Commander Khursheed Dar, LeT terrorist Hamza Bhai and Abu Zarar,” a supply within the intelligence institution informed TOI.
Firdous would leak categorized details about Indian safety forces’ motion and prepare the gathering, storage and supply of arms and ammunition on the instruction of terrorists. He allegedly offered targets for and even guided terror assaults.
“Firdous in 2020 guided LeT terrorists who killed J&Ok police sub-inspector Ashraf Bhat. On Could 18, 2024 Firdous gave the goal and guided the terrorists to assault vacationers wherein two guests from Rajasthan had been injured at Yanner, Pahalgam. He was additionally concerned in radicalising and luring the youth to affix terror ranks,” a supply revealed.
One other official mentioned that Firdous would additionally ship terrorists to the residence of presidency officers and businessmen with an intent to blackmail.
Nisar Ahmad Khan, who joined the forest division in 1996 and was posted as an orderly on the forest vary workplace, Verinag, Anantnag, is described by the safety companies as a “mole planted by Hizbul Mujahideen to destabilise the Indian State”.
His hyperlinks with Hizbul Mujahideen first got here to gentle within the yr 2000 when he was accused in a landmine blast in Anantnag that had killed the then energy minister, Ghulam Hasan Bhat. Nasir and one other particular person had been accused of offering logistical help to the terrorists for the assassination. Nasir was additionally charged with smuggling RDX used within the blast. He was nonetheless acquitted in 2006, which as per companies, was resulting from witnesses turning hostile and the intimidating setting inside and outdoors the courts.
“Arms, ammunition and wi-fi set seized from his home weren’t thought-about as proof by the trial court docket,” the safety officers mentioned.
Regardless of his acquittal in 2006, Nasir continued his work for Hizb. In 2016, following the killing of Burhan Wani, and in 2017 after the killing of Hizb terrorist Yawar Nisar Means, Nasir performed a central position in inciting violent protests within the Valley. 4 FIRs had been lodged in opposition to him and he was detained beneath the Public Security Act for eight months. Nevertheless, no departmental motion was taken in opposition to him and he has continued to work as an asset of Hizb,” the officers mentioned.
Ashraf Bhat, a resident of Reasi was appointed as a brief trainer in 2000 and regularised in June 2013. A senior intelligence officer primarily based in Jammu noticed that Ashraf grew to become an LeT overground employee whereas in service. His terror hyperlinks got here to gentle in 2022 and he was arrested. He’s presently lodged in District Jail, Reasi.
Ashraf handler was the ‘most-wanted’ LeT terrorist Mohd Qasim primarily based in Pakistan.
“LeT discovered him to be very helpful as a result of as a trainer Ashraf was greatest positioned to radicalise youth and perform terror actions beneath the duvet of a good career. He helped LeT increase funds for terror actions and coordinated the transport of arms, ammunition and explosives. As an lively terror affiliate, Ashraf additionally used his cowl to ship risk letters to the focused people recognized by LeT handlers primarily based in Pakistan,” mentioned a supply.
Nasir is learnt to be actively concerned in radicalising inmates of Reasi jail as effectively.
Over 72 J&Ok govt workers have been dismissed by J&Ok LG Manoj Sinha up to now beneath Article 311 (2) (c) of the Structure of India, over alleged terror hyperlinks.