Tainted J&K DSP Davinder Singh Gets Bail In Terror Case; A Look At His Journey From Being A Cop To Hizbul Aide

The tainted Jammu and Kashmir police officer has been accused of hiding terrorists at his Indira Nagar house in Srinagar and thereafter accompanying them to Jammu in a car.

Singh was granted bail on a personal bond of Rs 1 lakh and two sureties of similar amount. (File Photo)

New Delhi: A Delhi court on Friday granted bail to the suspended Jammu and Kashmir DSP Davinder Singh, who was arrested in January this year for  ferrying two Hizb-ul-Mujahideen terrorists in a vehicle on the Srinagar-Jammu Highway. As per reports, Singh was granted bail in the terror case by Additional Sessions Judge Dharmendra Rana after the Delhi Police failed to file the charge sheet within the stipulated time period. "Singh 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, noting that the probe agency failed to file charge sheet within 90 days from his arrest, as prescribed under law," their lawyer M S Khan told news agency PTI. It is also being said that Singh was granted bail on a personal bond of Rs 1 lakh and two sureties of similar amount. The tainted Jammu and Kashmir police officer has been accused of hiding terrorists at his Indira Nagar house in Srinagar, right next to the Army's 15 Corps Headquarters, and thereafter accompanying them to Jammu in a car driven by the Hizbul overground worker. The tainted Jammu and Kashmir cop was alleged to be a cogwheel in the dirty machinery of rising terrorism and insurgency in the valley. Here's a timeline of Davinder Singh's journey from being a cop to trusted Hizb-ul-Mujahideen aide: 1. Singh and another accused Irfan Shafi Mir had moved the court for bail on the technical ground that the charge sheet was not filed within 90 days, as prescribed under law. Their bail applications asserted that the accused were "wrongly and falsely implicated" in the case. 2. The Delhi Police Special Cell is probing Singh and other related accused in the alleged planning of a terror attack. Singh was in judicial custody in Hira Nagar Jail in Jammu and Kashmir till June 16. Besides Davinder Singh, accused Javed Iqbal, Syed Naveed Mushtaq, and Imran Shafi Mir are also in custody. 3. Delhi Police's Special Cell had brought him from Hira Nagar Jail to the national capital in March for interrogation in another case. 4. Police had earlier told the court that Mushtaq, alleged to be Hizbul Mujahiddeen commander of Shopian district, along with other militants, were planning to execute a terror attack in Delhi and other parts of the country and targeted killings of protected persons. Davinder Singh along with three accused being produced to a special National Investigative Agency (NIA) court on February 6, 2020 in Jammu. (File Photo/ Getty) 5. Singh was nabbed from the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway on January 11 while ferrying two militants -- Naveed Babu alias Babar Azam and his associate Asif Ahmad -- and a civilian. 6. In connection with the terror attack plannings, Delhi Police had filed FIR which stated that the youths of Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab are being trained for carrying out terrorist activities. Singh was taken in custody under this FIR and was also interrogated regarding the Khalistan angle. 7. During his interrogation, Singh, however, maintained that he had no link to Hizbul militants and that he was taking the terrorists to surrender, but interrogators have dismissed his claims. 8. As per sources close to the development, a sum of Rs 12 lakh may have been given to Singh to move out the two Hizbul militants to Jammu on their way to Chandigarh and onward to Delhi to carry out attacks on or before the Republic Day. (File Photo/ Getty) 9. Singh, who was posted in the anti-hijacking squad at the Srinagar international airport, was suspended from his services and was also stripped of all his awards, including a gallantry medal. 10. Singh, who was in line for a promotion as superintendent of police later this month, was in 2019 posted at the anti-hijacking unit at the Srinagar airport. He was promoted as Deputy Superintendent of Police (DySP) in 2006. In 2014, Singh was transferred to Traffic Police.