HC seeks MHA reply over sacking of jawan who marriedPak woman
Jammu, May 30 -- The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh high court has issued notices to Union home secretary and the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) asking them to respond to the sacking of a jawan before next hearing on June 30.
The court was hearing a plea filed by CRPF jawan Munir Ahmed challenging his dismissal from service, his counsel, advocate Ankur Sharma told HT.
Justice Javed Iqbal Wani has issued notices to Union home secretary and CRPF and has asked to reply before the next hearing-June 30.
In his writ petition, Ahmed claimed that since he was sacked from service in "An arbitrary, capricious, and whimsical manner" through an impugned termination order dated May 2, 2025, he requested the high court to "set it aside".
Ahmed in his petition said, "From 2022, he had duly intimated the authorities concerned in the CRPF about his marriage and duly followed the procedure and rule." He also produced communications and representations presented to the higher authorities, the petition mentioned.
Munir Ahmed reiterated that he first filed an application seeking permission for his marriage in 2022.
However, in January 2023, it was reverted, along with some objections. In a letter by inspector general of police, CRPF Jammu informed the special director general of police, J&K about Ahmed's intimation in November 2023 A letter by inspector general of police, CRPF Jammu, informed the J&K special director general of police about Ahmed's intimation in November 2023.
On April 30, 2024, the then Director General of the CRPF certified that he "intimated the department well within the rules" and said that he found "no mention of not issuing a no-objection certificate under the rules", according to the petition.
Ahmed was dismissed from service after it was found that he married his cousin sister Menal Khan, a Pakistani national who had migrated from Jammu's Bhalwal tehsil during partition in 1947....
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