Narco-terror: 4 J&K Govt employees sacked

 

 

 

 

AS PART of its zero-tolerance policy against narco-terror in Jammu and Kashmir, four Government employees have been terminated from the service by Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha by invoking Article 311 of the Constitution, sources said. The sources said that second phase of war against terrorism and terrorist groups has begun in Jammu and Kashmir and the painstaking investigation clearly established that these four Government employees were acting on behalf of terror outfits.

 

Law enforcement and Intelligence agencies had collected incriminating material evidence against them. According to sources, the four employees have been identified as Police Constables Mushtaq Ahmad Pir and Imtiyaz Ahmad Lone, Baazil Ahmad Mir (Junior Assistant, School Education) and Mohd Zaid Shah (Village Level Worker, Rural Development Department). According to sources, Mushtaq Ahmad Pir was recruited in Jammu and Kashmir Police in 1995 as a Constable in its Armed Police Wing. After joining the Police department, he was posted to various places in Jammu and Kashmir and spent a large part of his service period in the Kupwara District. “After getting acquainted with networks of drug traffickers, he took undue advantage of his police position and leveraged it for hassle free transportation and sale of drugs. He was least likely to be suspected for being a man in uniform, and therefore went unnoticed at Police Naka points, where he would use his Police Identity Card to avoid detection of any of his wrongdoings especially avoid searches of his vehicle including of those travelling with him in such vehicles. As such, his criminal activities remained undetected over the period,” a source said. Referring to Imtiyaz Ahmad Lone, the sources said he was appointed as Constable in Jammu and Kashmir Police in 2002.

 

They said after his recruitment, instead of working for maintenance of law, order and peace as a policeman, he strayed and slipped into illicit activities aimed at aiding and abetting terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir that has been raging since last three decades. The sources said that Bazil Ahmad Mir was appointed as a Junior Assistant in School Education Department in 2018 and posted at Government Boys High Secondary School, Ring Payeen, Machil, District Kupwara. Investigations into his activities have revealed that Mir after being appointed as a government employee became a notorious drug peddler in Lolab, Kupwara and adjoining areas of Kupwara.

 

Taking advantage of his position as a government employee, he brazenly used his influence to create and spread the tentacles of a drug syndicate in and around Lolab, turning into a full-fledged trafficker of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances and would mint money, at the cost of the life and career of the local youth, the sources said. Referring to Mohd Zaid Shah, the sources said he was appointed as a Village Level Worker (VLW) in Rural Development Department in 1998. They said he is a hardcore drug peddler. Besides working as a Village Level Worker (VLW) in the Rural Development Department, he also functioned as a President of All J&K VLWs Association Baramulla.