NEW DELHI: Jammu and Kashmir LG Manoj Sinha on Thursday ordered the termination of two J&Okay authorities academics discovered by an inside inquiry to be a part of Lashker e Taiba’s (LeT) overground community in Jammu division’s Reasi and Rajouri districts respectively.The 2 staffers — Ghulam Hussain, who joined the J&Okay training division in 2004 and Majid Iqbal Dar, working there since 2009 — have been dismissed by invoking Article 311(2)(c) of the Structure of India as a part of the continuing, broader crackdown on the phobia ecosystem throughout the Union territory. Almost 77 J&Okay govt staffers have been given marching orders beneath this provision since 2020.Each Hussain and Dar are at the moment lodged in jail in separate terror circumstances.Sources in J&Okay govt advised TOI that Hussain was posted at Govt Major Faculty, Kalwa, Mahore, Reasi however covertly working for LeT to strengthen its terror community in Reasi and the encircling areas.“The proof collected by the regulation enforcement and intelligence businesses has revealed that he was in contact with LeT terrorists Mohd Qasim and Ghulam Mustafa via encrypted messaging functions and was finishing up terror actions at their behest. He would obtain terror funds by way of native conduits and move them on to households of identified terrorists for assist, moreover utilizing the cash for terror recruitment and logistics.Ghulam was arrested in 2023. Sources, citing investigation particulars, stated he was a highly-radicalised terror sympathizer and concerned in recruitment of youth into the phobia fold.Majid Iqbal Dar was appointed as a laboratory assistant in 2009 promoted as a instructor in 2019. As per the file on his terror hyperlinks, Dar was working for LeT as an OGW and was concerned in radicalising children in Rajouri and surrounding areas. Investigation revealed that Dar was engaged in narco-terror actions and maintained an in depth hyperlink with LeT terrorist Mod Jabar. He was a dependable asset to LeT and was utilizing drug cash to finance terror actions and radicalise gullible youth, stated a supply.“Dar’s terror hyperlink was uncovered in January 2023 when police recovered an IED planted close to J&Okay Financial institution in Rajouri. Through the course of investigation, the police arrested three individuals together with Dar. It was later revealed that Majid, together with LeT terrorists Jabar and Zohaib Shazad, had planted the IED on the instruction of an LeT handler primarily based in Pakistan. That they had acquired financial compensation by way of a conduit,” stated an officer.Sources stated Dar continues to show radical tendencies contained in the jail.
