Widening the ambit of the NIA probe into the Pathankot terror siege, the investigation agency fanned out across the Samba and Kathua areas of the Jammu region on Tuesday after it found similarities in
Widening the ambit of the NIA probe into the Pathankot terror siege, the investigation agency fanned out across the Samba and Kathua areas of the Jammu region on Tuesday after it found similarities in the attacks that took place last year on an Army camp in Samba and Rajbagh police station in Kathua.
Punjab SP Salwainder Singh, who was questioned by the NIA on Tuesday for the second time, is learnt to have been changing his statements often. The NIA will now subject Mr Singh to joint questioning with his cook-cum-helper Madan Gopal and Somraj, caretaker of the Panj Peer Dargah in Punjab, which Mr Singh had claimed to have visited before being kidnapped by the terrorists who had attacked the Pathankot airbase hours later. Somraj has been issued summons to appear before the NIA.
Mr Singh had claimed to the Punjab police that he had been blindfolded by the terrorists who spoke in Hindi, Urdu and Kashmiri. Sources said Mr Singh may be given a clean chit and made a witness in the case if his statements are corroborated by the caretaker of the shrine and his helper. With no clear proof of insider involvement in the cross-border terror attack emerging yet, the NIA teams on Tuesday visited the Army camp in Samba on the Jammu-Pathankot highway where two terrorists had opened fire on March 21 last year.
Both the militants were shot dead by the security forces, while three people, including a major, were injured in the gunbattle. Another team also visited Kathua, where Rajbagh police station was attacked by a group of militants a day earlier. Three security personnel, two militants and two civilians, were killed.
