Srinagar, March 10 The Jammu and Kashmir government has dismissed three employees of the Jal Shakti (Water Resources) department over their alleged involvement in "anti-national and subversive activities," officials said on Tuesday.
Among the three employees, two were from the Kishtwar district in Jammu, while one was from the south Kashmir district of Anantnag.
They were identified as Liyaqat Ali Bhagwan, a resident of Bhagwan Mohalla Huller in Kishtwar; Kousar Hussain Bhagwan, son of Mohammad Akbar Bhagwan and a resident of Hunjala in Kishtwar, and Showkat Ahmad Zargar, a resident of Iqbal Mohalla Bijbehara in Anantnag.
According to the dismissal order issued by Shaleen Kabra, the financial commissioner of the Jal Shakti department, Liyaqat was working as a temporary, need-based labourer and was stationed at Berwar in Kishtwar.
Kousar Hussain was also a temporary, need-based labourer stationed at Huller under the PHE Sub-Division in Kishtwar, while Showkat was a daily wage labourer in Bijbehara, the order stated.
According to the order, an FIR (No 230/2019) was registered against Liyaqat and Kousar Hussain under Sections 13, 18, 19, 38 and 39 of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), pertaining to allegations of involvement in terrorist acts, conspiracy to commit terrorist acts, harbouring terrorists, and membership or support of a terrorist organisation.
After the investigation, a chargesheet was filed against them, and the case is currently under trial, it said.
Similarly, a case (FIR No 53/2019) was registered against Showkat under Section 307 of the Ranbir Penal Code, Section 7/27 of the Arms Act, and Sections 16 and 18 of the UAPA.
The chargesheet has already been filed, and the case is currently under trial, it added.