The Jammu and Kashmir administration sacked four employees, including two police constables, for their alleged involvement in “anti-national” activities.

Jammu Kashmir News: Four government employees, including two policemen, were dismissed from service by the Jammu and Kashmir administration Tuesday for their “deep involvement” in anti-national activities.

“The Jammu and Kashmir government has dismissed four employees belonging to various departments — two from the Police Department (constables), one from School Education Department (Junior Assistant) and one from Department of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj (Village Level Worker) in terms of Article 311 of the Constitution of India for their deep involvement in anti-national activities,” said an official statement issued on Tuesday.

As per the statement, the adverse activities of the now-sacked employees came under the scanner of the law enforcement and intelligence agencies when they were found “thickly involved in activities prejudicial to the interests of the State evidencing their involvement in terror related activities”.

An official spokesman said two constables of the Jammu and Kashmir Police, Imtiyaz Ahmad Lone and Mushtaq Ahmed Pir, were sacked for their alleged involvement in terror-related activities and cross-border drug trade.

According the spokesman, Lone, a resident of Tral in south Kashmir’s restive Pulwama district, was allegedly involved in supplying, transporting and facilitating delivery of arms and ammunition for promotion and executing terror acts, while Pir, a selection grade constable from Vilgam in Handwara, North Kashmir was deeply involved the drug trade.

“Being a resident of a border area in Kupwara, Pir had established contacts with narcotic drug smugglers across the border in Pakistan and was running a drug cartel in the North Kashmir belt”, the spokesman said.

He said that Pir had a direct association with the kingpins of narco-terror syndicate operating across the border and has a direct relationship with terrorist and secessionist ecosystem.

The other two employees dismissed from service include Bazil Ahmad Mir, a Junior Assistant in School Education Department, and Mohammad Zaid Shah, Village Level Worker in the Department of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj.

Mir is accused of “nurturing drug syndicate in and around Lolab area and has become a full-fledged trafficker of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, having direct relationship with the terrorist and secessionist ecosystem”.

Shah, the spokesperson said, is a “hardcore drug peddler” who allegedly received a large consignment of heroin from drug smugglers across LoC in PoJK, “playing a pivotal role in the generation of funds derived from narco trade that inevitably gets channelised to sustain terrorists-secessionist ecosystem in J&K.”

The spokesman claimed Shah was at the forefront of running a drug cartel in the north Kashmir belt and was in constant touch with the individuals of J&K origin who had crossed over to Pakistan in 1990 for terrorist training and are currently settled there.

(With PTI inputs)