The Jammu Kashmir administration has sacked a deputy superintendent of jails and a government school’s principal in South Kashmir for having alleged links with Militants.
Feroz Ahmad Lone of the Prisons Department and Javid Ahmad Shah, principal of the Government Girls Higher Secondary School at Bijbehara, have been terminated from service for allegedly actively working with Militant outfits.
According to officials, DSP Lone hatched criminal conspiracy with Militant commanders to send youths illegally into Pakistan so as to give them weapons training and later push them back into Kashmir as active Militants of Hizbul Mujahideen. DSP Lone was working for slain HM commander, Riyaz Naikoo.
Investigation reveals that two youth namely Danish Ghulam Lone of Braw Bandina, Litter of Pulwama district and Sohail Ahmad Bhat of Dogripora (Awantipora) Pulwama were recruited and asked by Riyaz Naikoo to meet his arrested associate and Militant Ishaq Palla. Danish Ghulam Rasool and Sohail Ahmad Bhat reached Central Jail, Srinagar, and confirmed their arrival to Ishaq Palla. However, finding inadequate replies to their queries, the jail staff refused to give permission to Danish and Sohail and ordered them to move out of the jail premises.
Javid, the principal, first appointed as lecturer in 1989 later became, Principal Government Girls Higher Secondary School Bijbehara, Anantnag.
He has been a hardcore Militant supporter and ardent sympathiser of Hurriyat and Jamat-e-Islami (JeI). He played a role of an advisor to Hurriyat cadre and JeI working in Bijbehara in 2016 agitation.
As Principal of the Government institution, he ensured that Hurriyat hartal calendars were followed in letter and spirit not only in the Government School which he was heading but its subsidiary institutions too. Javid by misusing his official position rather openly, disallowed girl students of his institution to study and participate in physical education and curriculum, citing it against the fundamentals of Islam.