Agencies
New Delhi, Feb 13: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested yet another person in connection with the case of suspended J&K Police DSP Davinder Singh who was caught red-handed escorting terrorists out of the Kashmir Valley last month.
The latest person to be arrested in this case is former president of the LoC Traders' Association Tanveer Ahmed Wani. He is the sixth person to be arrested in this case.
Wani was summoned to Delhi from Pulwama in Kashmir and was arrested in Delhi on Wednesday. Following his arrest, Wani was taken to Jammu on a two-day remand.
Wani's role came under the scanner of investigation agencies for allegedly giving money to Hizbul militant Naveed Babu, a former special police officer in J&K. Babu had deserted the police force to join terror ranks and became a "dreaded cop killer".
It is alleged that Wani was conduit of a money trail from Pakistan to Hizbul leadership and also had links with groups like Lashkar-e-Toiba and Jaish.
Meanwhile, on February 6, Davinder Singh, who was arrested for helping terrorists, was sent to Hiranagar Jail in Kathua district on 15-days judicial remand.
Officials said the suspended officer was produced before the special NIA court along with two Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists and their two associates in Jammu.
The four, however, were sent to high security Kot Bhalwal Jail on the outskirts of Jammu, the officials said.
After the expiry of 15-days remand, the five, including the suspended DSP, were produced before the NIA court and Judge SC Gupta sent Singh to Hiranagar Jail on 15-days judicial remand, while the dreaded Hizbul terrorist Syed Naveed Mushtaq Ahmed alias Naveed Babu, his brother Syed Irfan, close associate Rafi Ahmed Rather and Irfan Shafi Mir, who claims to be an advocate, were sent to Kot Balwal Jail, the officials said.
The NIA took over the investigations into the case last month and brought them here on January 23 on a transit remand from Kulgam in south Kashmir.
Singh was caught in south Kashmir while ferrying two terrorists out of the valley near Qazigund on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway on January 11. Mir was also nabbed with them.
Later, Irfan was arrested on January 23 after he was brought from Punjab. He was in constant touch with his brother and had asked him to look for an accommodation in Chandigarh where they could escape the harsh winters months of Kashmir.
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