Srinagar: Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha has ordered the dismissal of two employees of the Jammu and Kashmir government over their alleged militant links, reports said quoting sources on Thursday.
The sacked employees have been identified as Ishtiyaq Ahmad Malik, senior assistant of the Public Works Department (PWD), and Basharat Ahmad Mir, assistant wireless operator in JK police, officials told Daily Excelsior.
The report quoting sources said that Malik was appointed in 2000, and despite being a government employee, he started “working for Jamat-e-Islami and Hizbul Mujahideen.
The second sacked government employee, Basharat Ahmad Mir, was appointed as a police constable operator in 2010 and remained posted in various units of JK police till 2017. Sometime in late 2017, Basharat and other police constable operators were laid off after a court ruling.
However, in 2018, he was again appointed as a wireless assistant after a subsequent court ruling.
In December 2023, credible inputs were received that Basharat was in touch with a Pakistani Intelligence operative and was sharing critical and vital information with the adversary, sources told the newspaper.
