Giving the NIA probe a boost and joining dots between the Pathankot terror strike and the Samba attack in Jammu and Kashmir in 2015, the agency has recovered a Chinese wireless set from Punjab police
Giving the NIA probe a boost and joining dots between the Pathankot terror strike and the Samba attack in Jammu and Kashmir in 2015, the agency has recovered a Chinese wireless set from Punjab police officer Salwinder Singh’s vehicle even as Mr Singh’s questioning continued for the third consecutive day on Wednesday. Mr Singh’s car was hijacked by Pakistani terrorists before abandoning it a kilometre away from the IAF facility.
The data in the wireless set was deleted and the set is being sent to CFSL in Chandigarh and NTRO for retrieving the deleted data. The recovered wireless set is similar to a wireless recovered from the site of attack in Sambha, Jammu and Kashmir in 2015, NIA officials said.
The NIA has decided to question Mr Singh for the fourth consecutive day on Thursday. NIA officials recovered the wireless set while scanning the area for evidence and clues in connection with its probe on the terrorist attack at the Air Force station, official sources said.
“NIA teams are collecting CCTV footage on the route taken by terrorists to the Air Force base,” the spokesperson said.
NIA teams with the Punjab police and local villagers are carrying out searches in the nearby villages on the route taken by the terrorists for evidence left behind by terrorists like clothes, electronic devices, the spokesperson said.
The NIA has also summoned Somraj, caretaker of Panj Peer Dargah in Punjab, which Mr Singh had claimed to have visited before he was kidnapped by terrorists who attacked the Pathankot Air Force base hours later. Somraj will be joining probe on Thursday, the NIA officials said.
