Prime Minister Narendra Modi may be meeting Jammu and Kashmir’s top politicians in Delhi on Thursday in a political overture, but any association with these leaders might well ruin educated Kashmiri youths’ chances of landing any government job here.

Government job aspirants in Jammu and Kashmir will now be required to submit even the minutest details about their lives, including their and their families’ past or present involvement with any political organisation or participation in political activity.

Although the order does not clarify whether the candidates can be denied jobs because of their or their families’ past activities, a veteran bureaucrat said getting jobs will be tougher now. A senior lawyer called the amendment unconstitutional.

Job seekers must also mention their membership of any charity or cultural organisation, past mobile numbers, car numbers and social media accounts, and even provide details of their in-laws and their children if they are studying abroad.

All this information is to be provided by candidates who have been selected, and will be verified by the CID.

Lieutenant governor Manoj Sinha’s administration has amended the Jammu and Kashmir Civil Services (Verification of Character and Antecedents) Instructions, 1997, under which appointment orders are issued. The amendment was published on the government website on Tuesday.

The order is unambiguous that any “wrong” information provided by the candidate, and any “adverse report” from the verifiers, will lead to the appointment being terminated.

Earlier, the job seekers had to reveal any association with militants or separatists. Now they must disclose details of their — or their close relatives’ — membership of any political organisation (including pro-India parties) or participation in any political activity.

They must also fill in details of their membership of, or association with, any banned outfit like the Jamaat-e-Islami, if any, and even their membership of any club, society, association, trust, charity or similar organisation.

Job seekers who have stayed for at least a year in any foreign country, including Pakistan, or in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir after turning 18 must give particulars of all the places they have visited there. The candidates must also give details of all their foreign trips in the past five years, the purposes of the visits and details of the hosts they had stayed with.

They must provide details of their education from the age of 15, mobile numbers used in the past five years, registration number of vehicles owned or used, their email and social media or web-based portal accounts, and information about their in-laws.

“They have to give details of children studying/living/working abroad along with the details of (the) course being pursued with details of college/university, employer details and residential address,” the order reads.

Advocate-general D.C. Raina and the commissioner secretary-general, administration department, Manoj Kumar Dwivedi, did not respond to calls and text messages from this newspaper.

Additional advocate-general Bashir Ahmad Dar said he had no information about the service rules.

A former IAS officer who has held senior positions in the government said the order was “unprecedented” and a “360-degree kind of verification” that would make it extremely difficult for people to get government jobs.

“Political activity is not a crime. It (the conditions) will be unfair on anybody who, suppose, engaged in any activity 10 years back and has since reformed,” the former bureaucrat, who requested anonymity, said.

“I don’t know whether such activities will be held against him and whether any safeguards are available. I think they (job aspirants) will be extremely demoralised.”

High court Bar association spokesperson G.N. Shaheen said the government, police and the CID would be free to deny jobs to anybody because of their or their families’ associations even if the order left the matter unclear.

“Earlier, they would deny jobs because of people’s association with the Hurriyat. Now, any association with even the National Conference or the People’s Democratic Party can cost them a job,” he said.

“This order is unconstitutional and violates the fundamental rights guaranteed by the Constitution. Suppose I’m not associated with any political party but my father is. Should I be punished for that? It’s not permissible.”

The order says the verification must not take more than two months but if there’s an “adverse report”, the “appointment shall automatically stand cancelled without any notice”.

“The furnishing of false information or suppression of any factual information in the attestation form would entail disqualification, and is likely to render the candidate unfit for employment under the government,” it further reads.