NEW DELHI: Taking forward its drive to dismantle the terror ecosystem, the Jammu and Kashmir administration has terminated six more employees, including five J&K police personnel found to be involved in funding terror with sale proceeds of narcotics trade originating across the border.
According to sources in the Union territory government, J&K LG Manoj Sinha invoked 311 (2) (c) of the Constitution of India to sack the six staffers after painstaking investigation clearly established that they were part of the narco-terror network run by Pakistan ISI and terror outfits operating from its soil.
Sources said the inquiry by J&K criminal investigation department (CID) revealed that the dismissed police constables Farooq Ahmad Sheikh, Khalid Hussain Shah, Rahmat Shah, Irshad Ahmad Chalkoo and Saif Din, instead of helping the force to fight the narco-terror sponsored by Pakistan ISI and terror outfits, chose to be collaborators and moles.
Constables Farooq Ahmad Sheikh, Khalid Hussain Shah and Rehmat Shah, all from Kupwara, were part of an infamous trio that carefully created a drug syndicate in collaboration with narcotics traders based in Pakistan. Farooq used his cover as a police personnel to act as a conduit for supplying smuggled narcotics from across the border to Srinagar, Budgam and its peripheral satellite areas. He was exposed when Rahmat Shah was arrested with around 806 grams of brown sugar on the way to Kupwara from Karnah. On investigation, Rahmat spilled the beans on associates Farooq and Khalid.
Khalid, recruited as a constable in 2009, would facilitate the smooth transportation and sale of drugs. Constable Irshad Ahmad Chalkoo, also dismissed on Saturday, was deployed as personal security officer (PSO) of a senior government officer in Baramulla. Over a period of time he developed a close relationship with the terrorist associates of the area and started working as an over ground worker for Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).
Sources said Irshad got exposed in 2020 when Handwara police apprehended two terrorists from the house of one Abdul Razzaq Bhat. Search of the two terrorists yielded a huge cache of illegal arms and ammunition. On disclosures by the two terrorists, Irshad was arrested along with four more LeT terror associates. It was found that Irshad was in close contact with two Kashmir-origin terrorists based in PoJK and had received arms/ammunition, which he was supposed to deliver to the terrorists of LeT, for a payment of Rs 1 lakh.
Dismissed teacher Nazam Din from Poonch, despite being a govt employee,joined and promoted a few organisations and crypto-currency applications. “Nazam Din and his associate Qamar Din, an OGW for Hizbul Mujahideen, used to meet very frequently and during one such meeting, Nazam received Rs 10 lakh from Qamar Din, all derived from these illegal proceeds of narco-terror. These proceeds were ingeniously funneled and invested via one Rizwan Sheikh in spice business with the ultimate aim of making the terrorist-secessionist ecosystem a self-financing and self-sustaining campaign,” sources told TOI.
Nazam Din eventually became key handler of narco-terror network run by PoJK based terrorists Mohd Bashir alias Tikka Khan and Mohd Latief. In September 2022 Mohd Bashir and Mohd Latief (both J&K origin terrorists based in PoJK) sent a huge consignment of narcotics consisting of 15 kg of heroin from across the LoC. Of these about 5 kg was received by Nazam Din and was to be delivered to some Punjab-based drug peddlers in Poonch for a commission of Rs 2 lakh. He was about to deliver the consignment when he was arrested by the Punjab Police.
Constable Saif Din, a resident of Jammu, was a notorious drug peddler, a habitual offender and a mastermind who manipulated the very system that was meant to curb his kind.
According to sources in the Union territory government, J&K LG Manoj Sinha invoked 311 (2) (c) of the Constitution of India to sack the six staffers after painstaking investigation clearly established that they were part of the narco-terror network run by Pakistan ISI and terror outfits operating from its soil.
Sources said the inquiry by J&K criminal investigation department (CID) revealed that the dismissed police constables Farooq Ahmad Sheikh, Khalid Hussain Shah, Rahmat Shah, Irshad Ahmad Chalkoo and Saif Din, instead of helping the force to fight the narco-terror sponsored by Pakistan ISI and terror outfits, chose to be collaborators and moles.
Constables Farooq Ahmad Sheikh, Khalid Hussain Shah and Rehmat Shah, all from Kupwara, were part of an infamous trio that carefully created a drug syndicate in collaboration with narcotics traders based in Pakistan. Farooq used his cover as a police personnel to act as a conduit for supplying smuggled narcotics from across the border to Srinagar, Budgam and its peripheral satellite areas. He was exposed when Rahmat Shah was arrested with around 806 grams of brown sugar on the way to Kupwara from Karnah. On investigation, Rahmat spilled the beans on associates Farooq and Khalid.
Khalid, recruited as a constable in 2009, would facilitate the smooth transportation and sale of drugs. Constable Irshad Ahmad Chalkoo, also dismissed on Saturday, was deployed as personal security officer (PSO) of a senior government officer in Baramulla. Over a period of time he developed a close relationship with the terrorist associates of the area and started working as an over ground worker for Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).
Sources said Irshad got exposed in 2020 when Handwara police apprehended two terrorists from the house of one Abdul Razzaq Bhat. Search of the two terrorists yielded a huge cache of illegal arms and ammunition. On disclosures by the two terrorists, Irshad was arrested along with four more LeT terror associates. It was found that Irshad was in close contact with two Kashmir-origin terrorists based in PoJK and had received arms/ammunition, which he was supposed to deliver to the terrorists of LeT, for a payment of Rs 1 lakh.
Dismissed teacher Nazam Din from Poonch, despite being a govt employee,joined and promoted a few organisations and crypto-currency applications. “Nazam Din and his associate Qamar Din, an OGW for Hizbul Mujahideen, used to meet very frequently and during one such meeting, Nazam received Rs 10 lakh from Qamar Din, all derived from these illegal proceeds of narco-terror. These proceeds were ingeniously funneled and invested via one Rizwan Sheikh in spice business with the ultimate aim of making the terrorist-secessionist ecosystem a self-financing and self-sustaining campaign,” sources told TOI.
Nazam Din eventually became key handler of narco-terror network run by PoJK based terrorists Mohd Bashir alias Tikka Khan and Mohd Latief. In September 2022 Mohd Bashir and Mohd Latief (both J&K origin terrorists based in PoJK) sent a huge consignment of narcotics consisting of 15 kg of heroin from across the LoC. Of these about 5 kg was received by Nazam Din and was to be delivered to some Punjab-based drug peddlers in Poonch for a commission of Rs 2 lakh. He was about to deliver the consignment when he was arrested by the Punjab Police.
Constable Saif Din, a resident of Jammu, was a notorious drug peddler, a habitual offender and a mastermind who manipulated the very system that was meant to curb his kind.
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