6 more govt staff sacked in J&K
The Hindu
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.
Around 440 MBBS graduates of 2021 are not required to undergo one year of compulsory rural service as per the bond signed by them while joining the medical course through government-quota seats in 2015 as the High Court of Karnataka has said the law, enacted in 2012 for mandatory rural service, remained unenforced for 10 years as it was published in the official gazette only in July 2022.