India, Feb. 15 -- After Jammu and Kashmir lieutenant governor Manoj Sinha on Saturday dismissed three government employees, including a jailed policeman, for terror links, the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) hit out at the Omar Abdullah-led National Conference-Congress government in the UT, accusing it of toeing the BJP-led Union government's line.

Sinha invoked Article 311 (2) (c) of the Constitution to terminate the services of Jammu and Kashmir Police constable Firdous Ahmad Bhat, school teacher Mohammad Ashraf Bhat and forest department orderly Nisar Ahmad Khan, who was earlier arrested in connection with the killing of a National Conference minister in 2000.

The provision gives the government the power to sack employees w...