Cops among 6 govt employees sacked for their role in narco-terror funding in J-K

Chandigarh, August 3

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The Jammu and Kashmir government has terminated services of six of its employees, including policemen, found involved in narco-terror funding.

Government sources said Lt Governor Manoj Sinha ordered the termination after investigation established their alleged role in narco-terror network run by Pakistan ISI and terror outfits operating from its soil.

Sources said J&K Police had collected incriminating evidence which revealed that police constables instead of helping the force to fight the narco-terror sponsored by Pakistan ISI and terror outfits, chose to be collaborators.

“Narco-terror is one of the biggest threats to the country's security and war on Narco-terror network is critical component of war on terrorism to completely eliminate terror ecosystem and to ensure peace and prosperity in J&K,’’ Lt Gov Sinha had said at an event recently.

With this, the number of government employees sacked for their alleged role in narco-terror network has risen to eight this month alone.

One of the sacked employees has been identified as Head constable Farooq Ahmad Sheikh who was recruited as a constable in 2000 and was posted in District Kupwara.

Farooq Sheikh and his associates had received huge consignment of brown sugar from drug smugglers across the LoC in PoK and, thereafter, they used to sell the contraband among peddlers in J-K and other parts of India.

Others who have been terminated are constables Khalid Hussian Shah, Rahmat Shah, Saif Din and Irshad Ahmad Chalkoo, Nazam Din (teacher). With inputs from Agencies