DAVINDER GETS BAIL IN CONSPIRACY CASE; TO REMAIN IN JAIL IN NIA MATTER
NEW DELHI: Delhi court on Friday granted bail to suspended Jammu and Kashmir DSP Davinder Singh after the Delhi police failed to file charge sheet against him during the statutory period of 90 days in a conspiracy case. However, Singh continues to remain in the jail in the case probed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in which he was arrested while ferrying two Hizb-ul-Mujahideen terrorists in a vehicle on the Srinagar-Jammu Highway early this year.
Additional sessions judge Dharmendra Rana granted bail to Singh and another accused--Irfan Shafi Mir on a personal bond of ~1 lakh with two sureties of like amount in the case that Delhi police had filed.
In March, the Delhi police’s special cell(anti terror unit) filed a case against Singh, for alleged criminal conspiracy and activities against the interest of the country. Singh and Mir were booked under section 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of the IPC. The police claimed the duo was training young people from J&K and Punjab to carry out terrorist activities.
In the NIA case, Singh was intercepted when he was travelling on the national highway along with two Hizbul Mujahideen commanders Naveed Babu, Rafi Ahmed Rather.
A senior Delhi Police officer said the special cell is in “no hurry to file a charge sheet”. “We will file a charge sheet only when we have strong evidence against him,” said the officer.
Reacting to Singh’s bail, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor tweeted-“We all want to ask “How did the government allow this to happen? But the real question is “How do we as Indians allow the government to get away with this shameful non-performance?” (sic) Replying on Twitter, NIA said, “Delhi Police had arrested Davinder Singh in a separate case. He continues to be in judicial custody in NIA case.