Thirty-six policemen were forced to retire prematurely and a CRPF jawan was on Thursday charge-sheeted for being an agent of Pakistani intelligence ISI in Jammu and Kashmir.
An official said 36 police personnel were allegedly involved in corruption and criminal activities. “These personnel performed their duties in a manner which was indecent and in violation of the established code of conduct for public servants,” he said.
The official said that these employees were found to be involved in illegal activities, unauthorisedly absent from duty for long periods, performing poorly, were punished in departmental enquiries and some of them were found to be involved in corruption cases, facing serious criminal charges, the official said. and his integrity was questionable.
anti national activities
The government described the move as its effort to make the police department more efficient and transparent. An official spokesperson said a number of cases are being investigated with empowered committees set up to consider matters under Article 226(2). “Many employees have also been dismissed from service for anti-national activities,” the spokesman said.
“The exercise was conducted as part of a routine process of scrutiny of records of officers who exceed the benchmark of age/service length in terms of Article 226(2) of the J&K Civil Services Rules. As per the recommendations of the review committee, the performance of these employees was found to be unsatisfactory and their continuation in government service was found to be against public interest,” the official said.
Meanwhile, the State Investigation Agency (SIA) on Thursday filed a charge sheet against a serving CRPF personnel from Kokernag area of South Kashmir’s Anantnag district, who was an “ISI agent”.
An SIA spokesperson said that Zulfkar Ali Khatana, a serving constable in CRPF posted at 171-Bn, conspired and acted at the behest of agents of Pakistan-based terrorist organizations and ISI and collected and provided secret and classified information about . Location of important defense installations, shared confidential documents.
“Khatana assisted the enemy in planning an attack on India and acted upon the adversary’s instructions in its ongoing campaign to topple the government of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir,” the spokesperson said.
He said the terrorist handlers, Yusuf Baloch alias Zarar alias Qari Mawiya alias Hafiz alias Aziz Bai and agents of Pakistan-based ISI used cyberspace to encourage Kashmiri youth to join terrorist ranks and raise funds and help terrorists. Had to incite, entice and motivate to provide logistics for running the module. ,
“These operatives acted as their sub-agents and provided desired confidential information to the accused besides arranging logistics for infiltration of terrorists and carrying out attacks on security forces/critical installations to fulfill the objective of Inspired to arrange other necessary designs. To separate Jammu and Kashmir from the Union of India,” the spokesperson said.
A charge sheet was filed against the accused under sections of the UA (P) Act and the Enemy Agents Ordinance.