6 more govt staff sacked in J&K

They were “posing a threat to State’s security”, it says

The Jammu and Kashmir administration on Wednesday terminated the services of six government employees for “posing a threat to State’s security” under amended Article 311(2)(c), which requires no departmental inquiry except for a police or an official report.

Among the terminated employees are two policemen and two teachers who hail from the Chenab Valley’s Kishtwar, the Pir Panjal valley’s Poonch and the Kashmir valley’s Anantnag, Baramulla and Budgam districts.

They were identified as teacher Hamid Wani from Anantnag’s Bijbehara; Kishtwar constable Jaffer Hussain Butt; junior assistant in the Roads and Buildings department Muhammad Rafi Butt, also from Kishtwar; teacher Liyaqat Ali Kakroo from Baramulla; range officer in the forest department Tariq Mehmood Kohli from Poonch; and constable Showkat Ahmad Khan from Budgam.