3 min learnUp to date: Aug 11, 2026 07:10 PM IST
After a menace letter was posted on-line warning Kashmiri Pandits working within the Valley to “change their methods”, and publishing the main points of a few of them, the Jammu and Kashmir authorities is learnt to have instructed departments underneath it to ship Kashmiri Pandit workers on go away. The federal government can also be learnt to have requested them to stay alert and transfer to safer locations.
This letter emerged round every week after the two migrant workers were killed at a brick kiln in south Kashmir’s Kulgam on July 31, placing the safety institution on excessive alert.
Police sources say they’re verifying the authenticity of the letter circulated on-line by a gaggle known as the United Liberation Council, which could possibly be one other entrance of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT).
Police sources say the letter warned Kashmiri Pandits who reside exterior Kashmir however work right here to “change their methods”. The letter additionally had the names and telephone numbers of some migrant workers.
Whereas the federal government has not issued a proper order, verbal directions are learnt to have been handed to numerous departments, notably faculties and income departments, to inform Kashmiri Pandits to remain at house.
As a part of their rehabilitation, round 6,000 folks obtained advantages underneath the Prime Minister’s Particular Employment Package deal for Kashmiri Pandits over time. One of many situations is that they work within the Valley.
Police sources mentioned the letter particularly threatens workers working within the Income division and makes an attempt to hyperlink their work to the federal government seizing properties of terrorists.
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Sources mentioned that whereas safety for migrant workers has been enhanced, as a precautionary measure, they’ve been requested to not attend work till August 20. Sources mentioned that the staff whose names have been circulated have been requested to be notably vigilant.
A principal of a authorities college mentioned they have been initially advised to be lenient about migrant workers’ attendance. “First, we have been verbally advised to permit particular go away for them on August 5 (the anniversary of the abrogation of Article 370). Then, we have been knowledgeable that they need to be requested to remain house for a while,” a faculty principal mentioned.
Whereas the federal government has made on-line GPS-based attendance obligatory for academics in Kashmir, migrant workers have been exempted and are allowed to mark their attendance on an arrival e-book, it’s learnt.
In 2022, militants carried out a string of assaults on migrant Kashmiri Pandit workers. 5 folks have been killed in these assaults, prompting a protest demanding transfers exterior Kashmir. The federal government refused to simply accept their demand and posted them at safer areas in several elements of the Valley.
