Disgraced DySP among five granted 15-day NIA custody
TNN Bureau. Updated: 1/24/2020 9:38:39 AM
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JAMMU: Suspended Deputy Superintendent of Jammu and Kashmir Police Davinder Singh, who was arrested while allegedly transporting two Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists, was produced in a special NIA court on Thursday, which sent him to 15-day NIA custody along with four co-accused.
The suspended officer was produced in the special NIA court along with the two terrorists—Syed Naveed Mushtaq Shah alias Naveed Babu, and Rafi Ahmed Rather, whom he was helping travel out of Jammu and Kashmir.
Their two associates including Irfan Safi Mir and Syed Irfan, brother of Naveed Babu were also produced in the court by the NIA.
The NIA, which took over the investigations into the case last weekend, brought the four in Jammu on Wednesday on a transit remand from Kulgam in south Kashmir.
The accused were brought to the court in bullet-proof vehicles with their faces covered.
They were produced before Special Judge NIA Jammu Subash C Gupta, who after hearing the NIA’s demand of 15-day custody to interrogate the five, granted the request.
Judge Gupta observed that keeping in view the facts and the circumstances of the case, gravity and heinousness of the crime as involved in the present matter, submissions made by the CIO and the stage of the investigation of the case, the custodial interrogation of the accused is imperative to facilitate the ongoing investigation.
“Accordingly, the prayer made by the NIA seems genuine and justified,” he noted before granting 15-day custody of the five to NIA.
Singh was caught along with two terrorists Naveed Babu and Rafi Ahmed, and a lawyer Irfan Ahmed in a Jammu-bound vehicle on January 11, while Babu’s brother Syed Irfan, a Phd student was arrested last week from Jammu, when he was visiting his parents.
Police sources had said that the two terrorists and the lawyer had planned a travel to Pakistan after reaching Jammu.
After his arrest by the J&K police, multiple raids were conducted at his residence in Srinagar. Also, fresh raids were conducted by the NIA on Wednesday.
Singh was posted with the anti-hijacking wing of Jammu and Kashmir police in Srinagar, and was part of the security staff that received a group of foreign ambassadors who visited Kashmir earlier this month.
After initial investigation by Jammu and Kashmir police, the case was transferred to NIA on the direction of Ministry of Home Affairs.