Overview
- Orders signed by Financial Commissioner Shaleen Kabra removed the workers from service with immediate effect.
- Liyaqat Ali Bhagwan and Kousar Hussain Bhagwan, both posted in Kishtwar, are named in FIR No. 230/2019 under multiple UAPA sections.
- Showkat Ahmad Zargar, a daily wager in Bijbehara, is named in FIR No. 53/2019 under Section 307 RPC, the Arms Act, and UAPA Sections 16 and 18.
- Investigations have been completed, chargesheets have been filed in both cases, and the trials are underway.
- Officials say retaining such employees poses security and public‑order risks, and this move adds to a post‑2019 drive that has removed over 80 government staff, though these orders were departmental rather than under Article 311(2)(c).