KATRA: Reacting to the termination of three government employees in Jammu and Kashmir over "terror links", Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday said that the decision of Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha is "fine" if the employees were given a chance to justify themselves before their termination from the service.

"If there is evidence against them and if they were given a chance to justify themselves, but they could not, then it is fine," Omar Abdullah told reporters here.

"But if this step is taken without listening to them... then the law says everyone is innocent until anything is proven. They should be given a chance to speak in the court and if they cannot prove their innocence, then appropriate action should be taken," he added.

Manoj Sinha, Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir, on Saturday, issued an order terminating three government employees of the union territory over terror links.

The employees terminated are police constable Firdous Ahmad Bhat, teacher Mohammad Ashraf Bhat and Nisar Ahmad Khan, an orderly in the Forest Department.