Sacked for Going Against Security of State , Kashmiris See Attempt to Spread Fear
The termination notices for three government employees â a revenue officer and two teachers â contain no details.
J&K LG Manoj Sinha who signed the termination orders. Photo: Twitter/@diprjk
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Srinagar: Thirty-eight-year-old Idrees Jan Mir, does not know why he was fired from his position as teacher at a government school â one he held for 14 years.
His termination order, issued by J&Kâs Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha accused Idrees of working against the âsecurity of the state.â
But this father of three small kids, who was posted at a school in his native Kupwara district of north Kashmir, says it is news to him that he can be a threat to anyone at all. âI canât crush an ant under my feet. How can I pose a threat to the state,â he asked
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Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir – The family members of a teenage boy in Indian-administered Kashmir, killed in an alleged gunfight, have been charged under an stringent anti-terror law for holding a demonstration in the village “demanding the return of his body”.
Ather Mushtaq, 16, from Bellow village in Pulwama, was among three men killed by Indian security forces on December 30 last year during what police described as a gunfight after the men refused to surrender on the outskirts of the main city of Srinagar.
Police said the men – 22-year-old Aijaz Ganai and Zubair Lone, 25, being the other two – were “hardcore associates of terrorists” opposed to Indian rule.
NEW DELHI: Police in Indian-administered Kashmir on Monday charged a 40-year-old dad under anti-terror laws for demanding the release of his “terrorist” son’s body.
Mushtaq Wani’s son, Athar Mushtaq, 16, was one of three young people killed on Dec. 30 in an alleged gunfight with the army in the Lawaypora area of Baramullah district, on the outskirts of the territory’s capital city, Srinagar.
In a series of statements since the incident, police have maintained that the trio had militant links.
But Wani told Arab News: “I demanded from the authorities whether they have any proof, any footage, or any camera evidence about my son’s nefarious activities. I asked them to show that my son was a militant.”