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New Delhi: Fifty-seven government employees, including a college principal, professors, a public relations officer of Kashmir University, police personnel, and doctors, have been sacked in the past two years for allegedly supporting militant activities, ThePrint has learnt...
Other sackings involved three from the revenue services, two each from the public works, Jal Shakti, and rural development departments, and one each from the agriculture, power development, forest, prisons, industries and commerce, and social welfare departments, and the Industrial Training Institute, Sher-i-Kashmir International Conference Centre, J&K Bank, and the state cooperative bank...
According to sources in the administration, the designated J&K committee that is responsible for scrutinising and recommending cases under Article 311 of the Constitution, which pertains to the dismissal, removal or reduction in rank of persons employed in civil capacities under the Union or a state, decided to sack the 57 employees...
A source in the J&K administration said the sacked police personnel were involved in attacks on security personnel, providing crucial information to terrorists and arranging weapons for them, leading to their sacking...
The source said Pakistan planted the assets in government departments, and they played dual roles as journalists or government employees to peddle their narrative...
