NEW DELHI: Jammu and Kashmir lieutenant governor Manoj Sinha on Tuesday sacked three government employees, including a police constable, who were allegedly working for terrorist groups Lashkar-e-Taiba and Hizbul-Mujahideen.The accused have been identified as Malik Ishfaq Naseer, the police constable; Ajaz Ahmed, a teacher in the school education department; and Waseem Ahmad Khan, a junior assistant in Government Medical College, Srinagar.The three are being dismissed with immediate effect, the General Administration Department of the Jammu and Kashmir government said.Between August 2020, when he took office, and 2024, Sinha terminated more than 70 overground workers/terror associates from government jobs under the Constitution of India.The fresh dismissals, meanwhile, come more than a month after the devastating Pahalgam terrorist attack in the Union territory. On April 22, Pakistan-backed terrorists killed 26 men, including 25 tourists and a local in Pahalgam’s Baisaran valley.India responded with Operation Sindoor, under which it hit terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, in the early hours of May 7. This triggered a military confrontation between the nuclear-armed rivals.On May 10, Islamabad reached out to New Delhi requesting cessation of hostilities, resulting in a ceasefire being announced.(With ANI inputs)
