<p>The Jammu and Kashmir government headed by Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha Saturday terminated service of Anees-ul-Islam, grandson of late Syed Ali Geelani “in the interests of the state’s security.”</p>.<p>Anees had reportedly managed to get an out-of-turn job as Research Officer in SK International Convention Center (SKICC), a subsidiary wing of the J&K tourism department, when late Geelani was calling for protests and shutdowns in the second half of 2016 following Burhan Wani’s killing.</p>.<p>Around 140 candidates had reportedly applied for the job, selection for which was made by an internal committee of the Tourism department, instead of J&K State Services Board or Public Service Commission, mandatory for the selection process. Anees’s father and Geelani’s son-in-law, Altaf Ahmad Shah alias Altaf Fantoosh is currently lodged in Tihar Jail in an alleged terror funding case.</p>.<p>The termination was made under Article 311(2) (c) of the Constitution under which no inquiry is held and dismissed employees can only approach the high court for relief.</p>.<p>Article 311 was extended to J&K after abrogation of its special status under Article 370 in August 2019. One of its provisions says that retention of a person in public service, if prejudicial to the security of the state, can be terminated without recourse to normal inquiry.</p>.<p>“The Lieutenant Governor is satisfied after considering the facts and circumstances of the case and on the basis of the information available that the activities of Mr. Anees-ul-Islam, Research Officer in Sher-e-Kashmir International Convention Centre S/o Altaf Ahmad Shah R/o 119-MIG Green Park, Bemina, Srinagar A/p Bachpora, Srinagar are such as to warrant his dismissal from service,” reads the order.</p>.<p>The dismissal of Anees was greenlit by a committee headed by J&K’s chief secretary Arun Kumar Mehta after the case was referred to it by a ‘Special Task Force’ (STF) chaired by J&K’s intelligence chief which was set up in April this year.</p>.<p>So far on the recommendations of the committee, over two dozen government employees, including two sons of Pakistan-based Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahudin and tainted deputy superintendent of J&K police, Davinder Singh, who was chargesheeted by the NIA for providing support to the Hizbul, have been dismissed from the service.</p>.<p>A senior officer in J&K General Administration Department (GAD) said the termination of employees is an “ongoing process.”</p>.<p>For future appointments, the J&K government has already made the rules stricter wherein anybody joining the service will be subjected to CID verification which will unravel whether the fresh recruits have links in anti-national and anti-social activities.</p>
<p>The Jammu and Kashmir government headed by Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha Saturday terminated service of Anees-ul-Islam, grandson of late Syed Ali Geelani “in the interests of the state’s security.”</p>.<p>Anees had reportedly managed to get an out-of-turn job as Research Officer in SK International Convention Center (SKICC), a subsidiary wing of the J&K tourism department, when late Geelani was calling for protests and shutdowns in the second half of 2016 following Burhan Wani’s killing.</p>.<p>Around 140 candidates had reportedly applied for the job, selection for which was made by an internal committee of the Tourism department, instead of J&K State Services Board or Public Service Commission, mandatory for the selection process. Anees’s father and Geelani’s son-in-law, Altaf Ahmad Shah alias Altaf Fantoosh is currently lodged in Tihar Jail in an alleged terror funding case.</p>.<p>The termination was made under Article 311(2) (c) of the Constitution under which no inquiry is held and dismissed employees can only approach the high court for relief.</p>.<p>Article 311 was extended to J&K after abrogation of its special status under Article 370 in August 2019. One of its provisions says that retention of a person in public service, if prejudicial to the security of the state, can be terminated without recourse to normal inquiry.</p>.<p>“The Lieutenant Governor is satisfied after considering the facts and circumstances of the case and on the basis of the information available that the activities of Mr. Anees-ul-Islam, Research Officer in Sher-e-Kashmir International Convention Centre S/o Altaf Ahmad Shah R/o 119-MIG Green Park, Bemina, Srinagar A/p Bachpora, Srinagar are such as to warrant his dismissal from service,” reads the order.</p>.<p>The dismissal of Anees was greenlit by a committee headed by J&K’s chief secretary Arun Kumar Mehta after the case was referred to it by a ‘Special Task Force’ (STF) chaired by J&K’s intelligence chief which was set up in April this year.</p>.<p>So far on the recommendations of the committee, over two dozen government employees, including two sons of Pakistan-based Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahudin and tainted deputy superintendent of J&K police, Davinder Singh, who was chargesheeted by the NIA for providing support to the Hizbul, have been dismissed from the service.</p>.<p>A senior officer in J&K General Administration Department (GAD) said the termination of employees is an “ongoing process.”</p>.<p>For future appointments, the J&K government has already made the rules stricter wherein anybody joining the service will be subjected to CID verification which will unravel whether the fresh recruits have links in anti-national and anti-social activities.</p>