Fired ESPN anchor Adnan Virk is pursuing legal action against his ex-employer, sources have told The Post.

Virk was let go Friday after being accused of leaking confidential information on multiple occasions.

At present, he is receiving no severance after just signing a four-year contract worth seven figures. He had been considered a rising star at the network on baseball, college football/basketball and radio.

On Friday, after Virk was told of his firing at ESPN’s Bristol, Conn., campus, his company cellphone was confiscated and he was escorted to his desk to collect his personal items, according to sources. This is not an unusual practice when businesses let go of an employee.

The instance that led to the final decision to relieve Virk concerned a story that appeared on the website Awful Announcing.

In part, the report said Major League Baseball had opted to let ESPN slide on contractual obligations that called for it to have a certain amount of studio shows during the season in return for moving “Sunday Night Baseball” from 8 p.m. to 7 p.m.

ESPN had a conference call about “Sunday Night Baseball” that the network believes Virk revealed to Awful Announcing. Sources said the “premeditated nature” of the outreach alarmed ESPN. It is unclear what motivated Virk, though sources often try to curry favor with reporters.

When the conference call took place, Virk was not on the whole time, and the specific information about the future schedule for baseball was actually not discussed.

Virk followed up right after the call with Phil Orlins, the senior coordinating producer, asking specific questions about the direction of baseball at ESPN in regards to its scheduling. The questions matched what appeared later that day in the Awful Announcing article.

Virk, according to sources, told Awful Announcing reporter Ben Koo about the information shortly after.

“I cannot comment on the sourcing of any particular story we’ve done,” Koo said.

Virk declined comment, as did a spokesman for ESPN.

ESPN then investigated and felt that Virk had been having conversations with media reporters about confidential information, violating policy that all employees are warned about.

It also concluded Virk was not forthcoming after he was given multiple chances to come clean.

Sources say that Virk’s side contends he received no warning and the punishment does not fit the crime. They were shocked by the outcome, thinking that, at most, Virk might be suspended for two weeks for what they considered a lapse in judgment.

Sources on ESPN’s side point out that everyone in the company is required to take compliance training that includes not leaking confidential information, and termination could be a result.

Companies institute these practices to educate employees, but also to be able to say they warned them if accused of wrongdoing.

This is a point the court could take up, though, in most contracts, agents try to insert a clause that allows broadcasters the right to correct a wrong if they are accused of anything untoward. It is unclear if such language is in Virk’s deal.