Srinagar: PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti on Friday stated the Centre needs to maintain the pot boiling in Jammu and Kashmir to garner extra votes in elections. Her remarks come within the wake of the dismissal of three staff by the Jammu and Kashmir authorities for his or her alleged involvement in anti-national actions and the attaching of properties of militants. “In the name of fighting militancy, govt employees are dismissed arbitrarily & houses attached without giving the families any chance to avail the due legal course. This is collective punishment for innocent families & upends their lives,” Mufti wrote on Twitter.
The former chief minister stated the ‘muscular iron fisted coverage’ might attraction to the BJP vote financial institution within the nation, however in Jammu and Kashmir, “it is not only wreaking lives but further alienating people here from rest of the country”.
In the title of preventing militancy, govt staff are dismissed arbitrarily & homes hooked up with out giving the households any likelihood to avail the due authorized course. This is collective punishment for harmless households & upends their lives. https://t.co/sEUGZ82F7M
— Mehbooba Mufti (@MehboobaMufti) March 3, 2023
“GOI wants to keep the Kashmir pot boiling to use it in elections to garner votes,” she added. In its ongoing motion in opposition to terrorists working from Pakistan, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday hooked up a property of The Resistance Front (TRF) operative Basit Ahmad Reshi in Baramulla district.
The motion follows the sealing of a Srinagar-based property of the founder and self-styled chief commander of the Al-Umar Mujahideen, Mushtaq Zargar alias ‘Latram’, on Thursday.
Reshi, a “listed terrorist” underneath the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), has been working from Pakistan after his exfiltration there. He has been discovered funding terror actions and acts within the Kashmir Valley, an NIA spokesperson had stated.
Besides three authorities staff, together with a schoolteacher not too long ago arrested for allegedly finishing up a number of blasts, have been dismissed from service for his or her alleged involvement in anti-national actions, an official stated.
The Jammu and Kashmir administration ordered the dismissal of presidency center faculty instructor Arif Sheikh of Reasi, Junior Engineer (Public Works division) Manzoor Ahmad Itoo of Bandipora and Syed Saleem Andrabi of Kupwara, an orderly within the Social Welfare division, underneath Article 311 of the Constitution, a authorities spokesperson stated.
Article 311 of the Constitution offers for dismissal of an individual employed in civil capacities underneath the Union or a State.
