JAMMU, 4 February 2020, TON: On 11 January 2020, the Indian Police officer, who was awarded the highest medal, “Sher-e-Kashmir Police Medal for Gallantry” in 2018 was arrested on the charges of fake operations and aiding terrorists to spread terrorism inside Jammu & Kashmir and Pakistan.

According to the Central Reserve Police Force sources, Indian Superintendent of Police, Davinder Singh was caught red handed along with self-classified Hizb-ul-Mujahideen terrorists, who otherwise had no link with any independent movement for Kashmir or Mujahideen organization. Those arrested included Naveed alias Baba, Altaf alias Rafi, and Irfan and another person who was a lawyer by profession. The mobile phone confiscated by the Police authorities from the possession of Davinder Singh contained personal numbers of senior Indian Army officers from 15 Corps and Commanding Officers of Infantry Battalions. Beside contact list reflecting ranks and names, certain numbers were stored with codes pertaining to Indian Military Intelligence.

Police authorities claimed on the condition of anonymity that the arms and ammunition recovered from the possession of Indian Superintendent of Police, Davinder Singh residence near Headquarters 15 Corps bore the signatures of Pakistan and these terrorists were to be flushed into Pakistan through Line of Control (LoC) to carryout terrorism and bring back these weapons back to India after the accomplishment of activities.

On the contrary, arrested Mujahideen member, Naveed alias Baba disclosed during interrogation that he was tasked by Davinder Singh and an Army officer of Major rank to carryout firing during the visits of foreign delegations including fro European Union and the Americans to give impression if Pakistan is sponsoring terrorism inside Jammu & Kashmir controlled by India. Afterwards he was tasked to travel to Pakistan from Jammu to develop authenticated links.

Interestingly, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) instead of questioning Indian Military personnel is visting Kashmiri politicians to develop links with terrorists. On 3 February 2020, NIA team visited Tihar Jail, to investigate former Jammu and Kashmir MLA Sheikh Abdul Rashid for his links with Hizbul Mujahideen who is in the jail since 9 August in connection with funding of terror activities in Indian occupied Jammu & Kashmir State.

In the past, on the orders of Supreme Court of India, a special court was constituted to exclusively hear the case of involvement of twelve persons in terrorism including Lieutenant Colonel Prasad Shrikant Purohit, Dyanand Pandey alias Swami Amritanand Dev, Rakesh Dhawade, Major (Retired) Ramesh Upadhyay and Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, who are in judicial custody since October 2008. NIA dropped charges under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) against all the accused, including Colonel Purohit. The RSS-BJP alliance was blamed for putting pressure on NIA for sparing the saffron terror. Earlier investigations also confirmed involvement of Major General (Retired) Premnath Hoon, Colonel Jayant Chitale and Major (Retired) Ramesh Upadhyaya and others, who also served in Indian Intelligence agencies on different appointments for carrying out explosions including  Malegaon, Nanded, Ajmer and Shamjhoata Express but they were spared.