Disgraced DSP Davinder Singh, who was arrested and chargesheeted by the NIA in a terror case, was on Thursday dismissed by the Jammu and Kashmir administration, an official order said.
Singh was arrested in January last year when he was ferrying terrorists of the banned Hizbul Mujahideen to Jammu from Kashmir. The case was investigated by the NIA, which filed a chargesheet against Singh and others.
ieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha ordered Singh’s dismissal from service with “immediate effect” under Article 311 of the Constitution. This provision enables the government to withdraw presidential pleasure without holding an inquiry and the decision can only be contested in the high court.
According to the NIA chargesheet filed before a special court in Jammu last year, Singh, who was posted in the sensitive anti-hijacking unit of the police, had been in constant touch with his handlers in the Pakistan High Commission who have since been repatriated to Islamabad.
Singh, who has been accused of providing support to banned terror group Hizbul Mujahideen, was tasked by his Pakistani handler with establishing a “contact” in the Ministry of External Affairs for carrying out espionage activities, but he couldn’t. The chargesheet was filed in the first week of July last year. — PTI
