Disgraced DSP Devinder Singh and four accused were sent to 15-day judicial custody by a Special NIA court on Thursday.
The court passed order on Singh’s plea alleging there is a threat to his life in the Kotbalwal Jail which sheltered terrorists who were nabbed by him.
Singh was sent to the Heeranagar jail in Kathua and the other four were sent to the Kotbalwal jail in Jammu.
Singh along with terrorists Naveed, Rafi and Irfan were arrested on Jan 11 on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway while he was transporting terrorists to Jammu. The trio was nabbed by a J&K police party led by South Kashmir Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Atul Goel. Both the terrorists are from Sophian. Two AK-47 rifles and some hand grenades were found in the Maruti car used by them.
NIA took over the investigation of the case from the Jammu & Kashmir police.
Singh was posted at the Srinagar International Airport. Earlier he was in the anti-hijacking squad of J&K police, and before that as part of the special operations group when the elite force was established. He was posted as an inspector in the SOG, and due to his successful anti-terror operations, he had got an out-of-turn promotion as DSP.
But later he was removed from SOG after there were allegations of extortions against him, and he was suspended from services for some time. After that, he was posted at the police control room and then the anti-hijacking unit.
—India Legal Bureau