DSP Davinder Singh will be probed by counter-terror probe agency NIA

Davinder Singh, the Jammu and Kashmir police officer arrested last week for terror links, will be probed by the National Investigation Agency, the country’s lead counter-terror probe agency. The Home Ministry on Thursday asked the NIA to start investigations into Singh’s case to take a hard and close look at his involvement with terror groups.

Davinder Singh was intercepted on Saturday when he was travelling on the national highway to Jammu along with three men. Singh was sitting in the front seat of the Hyundai i10 vehicle. Also in the car were Naveed Babu and Asif Ahmad, two men who have been described by the security establishment as Hizbul Mujahideen commanders, along with lawyer Rafi Ahmad.

Singh was arrested under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, or UAPA, the anti-terror law.
The arrest of a counter-terror police officer has set off a war of words between the Congress and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party after Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury called for a thorough probe into his activities in the past. Already, Singh’s arrest for terror links had put the spotlight on an allegation made by Afzal Guru, one of the co-conspirators for the 2001 Parliament attack.

Afzal Guru had told his lawyer in a letter that Davinder Singh had asked him to accompany co-accused Mohammed to Delhi and organise his stay. Guru was hanged in 2013 for waging of war against the state, murder and criminal conspiracy; conspiring and knowingly facilitating terrorist acts and harbouring and concealing terrorists.