Dr Showkat removed from post of Principal Law College, likely to face forfeiture of pension
ANN News Desk/Tariq Bhat
Srinagar, April 10: Former professor of Kashmir University Dr Sheikh Showkat has been removed from the post of Principal Law College Srinagar and is also likely to face fortification of pension.
Dr Showkat has also remained a columnist to English Daily in Kashmir and written number of anti-country articles including “The Way Out: Hurriyat’s 5 point proposal”, “Misinterpreting Kashmir”, “Leaders as scape-goats”, “Lost Battle of Hearts and Minds”, “Here is what we achieved all these days” and many more propaganda which are still available on Greater Kashmir website (archive).
All these write-ups spit venom against the country and are still accessible to lakhs of people across the globe through Greater Kashmir newspaper official website.
Dr Showkat in 2016, along with Pakistani sponsored secessionist Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Arundhati Roy, Prof. SAR Geelani and others had participated at a convention titled – Azadi – The Only Way at Press Club of India, New Delhi.
Dr Sheikh Showkat was one among others who delivered an anti-India speech at the convention.
Sources said that after that event, anti-India slogans were also raised at the convention. Delhi Police had registered an FIR under Sections – 124 A (sedition) , 120 B (criminal conspiracy) and 149 (unlawful assembly) in connection with the this convention.
“The management of Kashmir Law College has removed Dr Sheikh Showkat from the post of Principal with immediate effect. The process to appoint the new principal has been initiated by the college management,” one of the top officials of college management confirmed to ANN News.
He added that Dr Showkat has been a hard-line ideologue of Pakistani backed separatist organizations.
As a government employee, Dr Showkat has received about Rs 5.1 crores as salary and another Rs 3.3 crores as additional allowances under different heads.
He also is in receipt of a pension of more than one lakh per month,” said an official.
“Competent public authority are actively considering invoking relevant provisions of pension related laws that authorises the state to forfeit pension when there is credible evidence of acting as a covert ideologue of secessionist and terrorist networks to justify violence and separatist politics projecting it as moral and desirable,” a top official told ANN News.
He added that a complex auditing process has been devised by the authorities in higher education establishment to assess and quantify the harm such persons have inflicted and to the extent they have impaired the value and normal function of education institutions.
