Cracking its whip, the Union Territory administration on Saturday sacked four employees for their involvement in anti-national activities. Son of Syed Salahuddin, the self-styled chief of banned terror group Hizbul Mujahideen, and the wife of Bitta Karata, involved in fatal attack on minority community members also figured in the list of four employees.

All the four have been dismissed  under Article 311 of the Constitution which enables the Government to sack its employees without any inquiry.

Syed Abdul Mueed, posted as Manager (Information and Technology) at the Commerce and Industries Department, is the third son of the Hizbul Mujahideen chief to have been sacked from the Government job. Syed Ahmed Shakeel and Shahid Yusuf were dismissed from service last year.  

According to the officials, Mueed has allegedly been found having a role in three terror attacks on the Jammu & Kashmir Entrepreneurship Development Institute (JKEDI) complex at Sempora in Pampore and his presence in the institution has led to increased sympathy with the secessionist forces.

Assabah-ul-Arjamand Khan, the wife of Farooq Ahmed Dar, alias ‘Bitta Karate’, and a 2011-batch Jammu & 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”. Also her involvement in ferrying consignment of money for funding anti-India activities in Jammu & Kashmir has been reported, the officials said.

Also sacked from the Government service is Dr Muheet Ahmad Bhat, posted as a scientist in the Postgraduate Department of Computer Science in Kashmir university. He is alleged to have been found involved in propagating secessionist-terrorist agenda in the university by radicalising students for advancing the programme and agenda of Pakistan and its proxies.

Majid Hussain Qadri, a senior Assistant Professor in Kashmir University, is alleged to have a long association with terror organisations, including the banned Lashker-e-Tayyeba. He had earlier been booked under the stringent Public Safety Act and figures in a number of FIRs related to various terror cases.