Crackdown on anti-national activities! J&K admin sacks three govt employees over terror links

Taking action against anti-national activities, the Jammu and Kashmir administration has sacked three government employees including a police constable for actively supporting terrorism.The designated committee in J&K has recommended the termination of these three employees from the government service.

 

 

The three employees have been identified as Altaf Hussain Pandit, Mohd Maqbool Hajam, and Ghulam Rasool. Pandit is a Chemistry teacher at Kashmir University, Hajam is a teacher in a government school and Rasool is a police constable.

 

As per the sources, Pandit is actively associated with Jamaat-e-Islam (JeI) and had crossed over to Pakistan for terror training. He had remained an active terrorist of JKLF for three years before his arrest by security forces sometime in 1993.

 

 

As an active cadre of JeI, he worked as a terror recruiter and was instrumental in organizing stone-pelting, and violent protests against the encounter of terrorists in 2011 and 2014.

 

In 2015, he was appointed as an executive member of the Kashmir University Teachers Association (KUTA) and used his position to propagate secessionism among students. It is learned that he was instrumental in motivating three students of his university to join terror ranks.

 

 

 

Mohd Maqbool Hajam is an overground worker (OGW) who used to radicalize people. He was part of a mob that attacked a police station in Sogam and other government buildings.

 

While Ghulam Rasool was also working as an underground supporter of terrorists. He also acted as an informer to terrorists and tipped them off about anti-terror operations. He has also been accused of leaking the names of police personnel involved in anti-terror operations. He was also in touch with Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist Mushtaq Ahmad alias Aurangzeb, who has crossed over to Pakistan.

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