JKLF terrorist’s wife, Hizb chief’s son among 4 J&K employees sacked

SRINAGAR: The wife of a jailed JKLF top terrorist, the youngest son of Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Sallahudin, a University of Kashmir scientist and a senior assistant professor were among four employees the J&K government sacked Saturday on charges of supporting terrorism and getting jobs through rigged appointments.
They were removed following internal investigations. J&K administrative service officer Assabah-ul-Arjamand Khan is the wife of JKLF’s Farooq Ahmad Dar alias Bitta Karate, who is serving time in jail for murder and other criminal charges linked to his days with the banned secessionist outfit. Khan was DPO in the rural development directorate.
Pakistan-based Hizbul chief Sallahudin’s son Syed Abdul Mueed was dismissed as IT manager at J&K Entrepreneurship Development Institute—a post he allegedly got through its former head Mohammad Ismail Parray when the PDP-BJP coalition government was in office.
The government fired scientist Muheet Ahmad Bhat of Kashmir university’s postgraduate department of computer science and senior assistant professor Majid Hussain Qadri of the management studies department for their reported involvement in secessionist activities. Both were jailed before under the public safety Act, official sources said.