Davinder Singh Case : Centre Asks NIA To Initiate Process Of Probe

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The  suspended Jammu and Kashmir Police Deputy Superintendent Davinder Singh, who was caught in south Kashmir while ferrying two militants to Jammu last weekend , according to media reports is in big trouble ahead.  The Union Home Ministry has now  asked the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to initiate the process of probing the case against him. The charges are grave.

The formal notification of handing over the case to the NIA is expected to be issued by the ministry soon, an official privy to the development said.

Necessary formalities are being completed in Jammu as well as in Delhi before the probe agency takes over the case. The NIA has been credited with breaking the nexus between stone-pelters and separatists in Jammu and Kashmir.

Some NIA members, posted in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, were present during the preliminary questioning of Singh and three others — Naveed Babu, a self-styled district commander of banned terror outfit Hizbul Mujahideen, his associate Atif Ahmed and a lawyer, Irfan Ahmad Mir, who has been named as an active overground worker for terror groups by police.

The officials said all records would be handed over to the NIA after the case is registered by the agency.

A Jammu and Kashmir government order on Thursday also said that the sensitive airports of Srinagar and Jammu are to be “immediately” brought under the security cover of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) in view of Singh’s arrest.

Singh, who was arrested along with the three other people on Saturday, had ferried Babu to Jammu last year and facilitated his return to Shopian after “rest and recuperation”. He is believed to have taken Rs 12 lakh for “smuggling” the two militants to Chandigarh and arrange for their accommodation for a couple of months, the officials said.