Suspended J&K DSP gets bail in terror case
Jammu and Kashmir police officer Davinder Singh, who was arrested over his alleged links with separatist militants in January this year, was granted bail by a Delhi court on Friday.
His counsel M.S.Khan said that he and another accused in the case Irfan Shafi Mir were granted the relief by the court in a case filed by Special Cell of Delhi Police against them and some others, noting that the probe agency failed to file charge sheet within 90 days from their arrest, as prescribed under law. The bail was granted on a personal bond of `100,000 and two sureties of like amount, he added.
Singh’s counsel pleaded before the court that he and Mir were formally arrested by the Special Cell on March 14 and 19, respectively and were no longer required by the police for the purpose of investigation. “The accused are wrongly and falsely implicated in the case. There is no material/ evidence to show the existence of any conspiracy to commit any act with intent to threaten or likely to threaten the unity, integrity, security or sovereignty of India and there is also no material to substantiate that the accused had the intention or conspired to carry out terror strike,” the application said.
Singh, then posted as Deputy Superintendent of Police at the AntiHijacking Squad at the Srinagar International Airport, was arrested along with Syed Naveed Mushtaq alias Naveed Babu, one of the most wanted Hizb-ulMujahideen militants, and his associate Asif Ahmed Rather by the J&K police in southern Kulgam district on January 11.