Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Feb 18 The National Investigation Agency (NIA) today seized three vehicles used by a senior police officer in transporting arms and Hizbul Mujahideen militants to Delhi two years ago.
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The vehicles were used on January 11, 2020, by Deputy Superintendent of Police Davinder Singh to carry Hizb militants to Delhi from Srinagar. The officer was arrested in Kulgam when he was shifting the cop-turned-militant commander of Hizb, Syed Naveed Mushtaq, alias Naveed Babu, and his close associate, in his car outside the Valley.
As per Police four accused, including Singh and two active militants, were going out of J&K to commit an attack.
“Investigations have revealed that the Hyundai i20 owned and used by accused Irfan Shafi Mir, Maruti 800 registered in the name of Mushtaq Ahmad Shah and used by his son accused Babu, and Hyundai i20 Sportz registered and used by Tanveer Ahmad Wani of Humhama were used for militant activities,” officials said.
The NIA raided two houses of Singh, a resident of Pulwama’s Ovary Gund village, and recovered Rs 12 lakh and a weapon.
Babu was the outfit’s second top commander after Riyaz Naikoo in Kashmir and was accused of being behind the killing of 11 persons including truck drivers non-local labourers and apple traders, in South Kashmir in 2019.
Davinder Singh was arrested on March 14, 2020 pursuant to an FIR by the Special Cell of Delhi Police for the alleged commission of offences under Section 18 of UAPA and Section 120-B IPC.
As per the FIR, youths of Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab were being trained to carry out militant activities in the country and that there was a plan to execute attacks in Delhi.
The FIR apprehends the involvement of D-Company and Chhota Shakeel in funding a pro-Khalistan organisations in Punjab.
Singh was dismissed from service by lieutenant governor Manoj Sinha in 2021 in an order that said the L-G “was satisfied” that the activities of Singh, a suspended deputy superintendent of police at the time, warranted his dismissal from service.
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