THE J&Ok administration has sacked two extra authorities workers – an Assistant Professor and a income official – citing “security of the state” as a motive for the dismissal.
Assistant Professor Dr Abdul Bari Naik and Naib Tehsildar Nazir Ahmad Wani have been sacked beneath provisions of Article 211(2) (C) that permits the federal government to terminate companies of presidency workers with out holding an inquiry in opposition to them.
Separate orders on this regard have been issued by J&Ok’s General Administration Department.
Naik was arrested in March in reference to a 2018 FIR in opposition to him. Upon his arrest, police had mentioned in an official assertion that he was absconding. However, throughout this era he was working because the Covid District In-charge in his dwelling district and was in fixed contact with all senior police and civil officers of the district.
Interestingly, Naik contested the 2014 election as an Independent from south Kashmir’s Kulgam. He labored as an Assistant Professor in Geography and was posted on the Government Degree College, Udhampur, earlier than his arrest.
“There is no security of state involved in this case. Dr Sahib [Naik] was booked and sacked for his crusade against corruption,” his brother Rouf Naik, an advocate, advised The Indian Express. “He was a social and RTI activist.”
Rouf mentioned they might make a illustration to Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha and would resolve on approaching court docket solely after assembly him.
Wani, who was Naib Tehsildar in Pulwama, was arrested final yr after police claimed to have discovered a “militant hideout” in a store owned by him – an allegation his household denied.
A month earlier than his arrest, Wani had complained in opposition to the Senior Superintendent of Police, Pulwama, Ashish Mishra for “misuse and abuse” of energy by police in Pulwama.
In his grievance, Wani, who was then working as an Executive Magistrate on Covid obligation, had complained that he was stopped by police and his driver crushed up on the place the place he was posted for Magisterial obligation with the police.
In the same motion, the federal government on Saturday terminated the companies of a authorities trainer from Kupwara beneath the identical provisions terming him a risk to the safety of the state.
The motion in opposition to the federal government workers has been condemned by the workers’ union. The Employees Joint Action Committee (EJAC) termed the federal government choice as unilateral.
“It is a partial decision and biased too, where an employee is dismissed from service and not allowed to put his point across or clear his stand. It is criminal to stop a person from speaking in his defence, against whom you have levelled such serious charge,” the EJAC mentioned in a press release.
