In Jammu and Kashmir, Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha today dismissed three government employees including a jailed policeman for their alleged terror links. Akashvani Jammu Correspondent reports that the sacked employees have been identified as police constable Firdous Ahmad Bhat, teacher in the school education department Mohammad Ashraf Bhat and an orderly in the forest department Nisar Ahmad Khan who was earlier arrested in connection with the killing of a National Conference minister in the year 2000.

The LG invoked Article 311 (2) (c) of the Constitution to terminate the services of the three employees after investigation by law enforcement and intelligence agencies clearly established their terror links. The termination of the three government employees comes close on the heels of two back-to-back security review meetings by the LG in the twin capital cities of Srinagar and Jammu, directing the security agencies to intensify anti-terror operations to neutralise terrorists and terror ecosystem.

The dismissed policeman, who was arrested in May last year, was initially appointed as Special Police Officer (SPO) in 2005 and subsequently promoted as constable in 2011. Worth to mention, over 70 government employees have been fired by the LG in J&K for their terror links in the past few years.