Srinagar, Jan 12
A senior police officer, posted with the strategic anti-hijacking team at Srinagar airport, was arrested along with two terrorists whom he was ferrying in a car in Kashmir Valley, a top police officer said here on Sunday. Kashmir Inspector General of Police (IGP) Vijay Kumar said it was a “heinous crime” and Davinder Singh was being treated on par with the terrorists and jointly interrogated by all security agencies. To a question about whether his posting at the airport was a security breach as the officer was also seen with the envoys of various countries who visited the valley earlier this week, Kumar said the police had no information about the officer's involvement till Saturday.”He was on duty and how could we have stopped him from that as we had no information about his involvement in anything,” he said. The IGP said there was no record of the arrested police officer's involvement in the Parliament attack case as was being reported in a section of the media. “We have no such records and I have no information, but we will ask him about this,” he said.While refusing to divulge details of the probe so far, Kumar said that after the news about their detention on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway in south Kashmir on Saturday spread, some militants escaped from a hideout in Shopian.One of the arrested militants Naveed, who was a police constable and deserted the force in 2017 to join the Hizbul Mujahideen, has been involved in cases of killing of police personnel and civilians, the IGP told a press conference here.”The police officer (Singh) has worked on
