SRINAGAR: Munir Ahmad, a constable with Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)’s 41st battalion, has been dismissed from service over concealing his marriage with a Pakistani woman. They had met through social media a few months ago.The officials said that Ahmad deployed in Jammu and Kashmir has been fired with immediate effect for concealing his marriage to a Pakistani national and also knowingly harbouring her beyond the validity of her visa. “His actions were found to be in violation of service conduct and detrimental to national security,” they said. The CRPF had ordered an internal inquiry into the conduct of Ahmed after his Pakistani wife Minal Khan was ordered to be deported as India, in response to the Pahalgam terror attack, revoked visas for Pakistani nationals. She was taken to the Attari-Wagah border for deportation but brought back after the J&K and Ladakh High Court granted her a 10-day stay, allowing her to return to Jammu pending further hearings on her long-term visa application, on April 29. The CRPF probe, the officials said, revealed that Ahmed married Khan via a WhatsApp video call on May 24, 2024, and without obtaining prior approval from the CRPF, as required under Rule 21(3) of the Central Civil Services (Conduct) Rules, 1964, he married her. An online Nikah was solemnised in May 2024. It said that though he had submitted a request for permission, the CRPF’s J&K Zone recommended against granting a ‘No Objection Certificate (NOC)’ due to national security concerns. The marriage proceeded before a formal decision was made, constituting a breach of protocol, a report sent to the CRPF higher ups said. As per the report, Khan entered India on a short-term tourist visa in February 2025, which expired on March 22 and that Ahmed neither informed the CRPF of her arrival, nor about her continued stay beyond the visa’s validity or her application for a long-term visa. The dismissal was executed under rules that do not require a formal enquiry, reflecting the severity of the breach, the CRPF spokesperson Deputy Inspector General M Dhinakaran, has said. Khan’s lawyer and a Jammu-based spokesman of the BJP Ankur Sharma has claimed that Ahmed had informed the CRPF of the marriage and that Khan’s visa application was under consideration and, therefore, he had not breached rules or indulged in any service conduct.
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