NIA raids arrested DSP’s Srinagar home, recovers Rs 7.5 lakh cash and other docus

SRINAGAR: Carrying out the probe into J&K deputy superintendent of police (DSP) Davinder Singh’s terror links, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday conducted raids at the Indra Nagar residence of the DSP and recovered Rs 7.5 lakh cash, a map and some sensitive documents.
Following the recoveries, the NIA dropped its plan to immediately take DSP Singh to Delhi. Sources said Singh would be kept in Kashmir for some more time as NIA sleuths were planning to conduct further raids.
Apart from Singh’s house, NIA sleuths on Wednesday also carried out raids at the residence of a doctor (name withheld) in Gulshan Nagar on the outskirts of Srinagar.The house was locked when the sleuths reached there. Nevertheless, they searched the place but did not find anything incriminating from there, the sources said.
DSP Davinder Singh was arrested along with three Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists on January 11 while they were travelling together in a car. The arrests were made at Mir Bazar in Kulgam district of south Kashmir. The DSP was ferrying the terrorists to Jammu, from where the Hizbul operatives were supposed to go to Delhi. Some arms and ammunition were recovered from them.
The probe was handed over to NIA on the recommendations of J&K director general of police (DGP) Dilbagh Singh. The agency registered a fresh case against DSP Singh and the three terrorists on January 18.
Intelligence agencies are also probing DSP Singh’s involvement in the 2001 Parliament attack case. In 2013, convict Afzal Guru, who was later executed for the attack, had claimed that Singh had forced him to ferry Pakistani terrorist Mohammad to Delhi. Mohammad was one of the attackers who had targeted Parliament.