SRINAGAR: Confirming the arrest of President’s Police Medal awardee deputy superintendent of police (DSP) Davinder Singh along with three Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) operatives, the J&K Police on Sunday said that the senior police officer would be treated like a terrorist during investigation.“We consider DSP Davinder Singh’s involvement (with terrorists) as a heinous crime. He will be interrogated by all security agencies and dealt with in the same manner as the other arrested terrorists. In fact, DSP Singh’s interrogation is already underway,” said inspector general of police (IGP), Kashmir range, Vijay Kumar at a press conference here.A police party had on Saturday raided DSP Singh’s Srinagar house and recovered one AK-47 rifle, two pistols and three hand grenades. In Srinagar, he was living in the high-security Indiranagar locality near the army headquarters at Badamibagh. He was currently part of the anti-hijacking squad of the J&K Police and was deployed at the Srinagar International Airport (SIA).The arrested HM terrorists have been identified as Syed Naveed Mushtaq alias Naveed Babu, Asif Rather alias Rafi Rather and Irfan Shafi Mir — all from Shopian. While Naveed and Rather were wanted HM terrorists, Mir was an over-ground worker (OGW) of the outfit. Mir was driving a white Maruti car carrying the other three when a police party intercepted it near Mir Market in Kulgam district on Saturday afternoon and arrested all four.Two AK-47 rifles and some hand grenades were recovered from the car.IGP Kumar said police have lodged an FIR in Qazigund police station against DSP Singh and the three HM terrorists under relevant sections of the law, including Arms Act and Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.All the four accused were currently being interrogated at the special operations group (SOG) camp at Aminoo village in Kulgam district, intelligence sources said.On reports that DSP Singh had a role in the 2001 Parliament attack plot, IGP Kumar said police have “no record” of his involvement.According to the family of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru , the latter had pointed to the role of DSP Singh in the plot in a letter to his lawyer Sushil Kumar in 2004. However, nobody took the condemned prisoner’s disclosures seriously. At that time, Singh was posted as DSP at Humhama SOG camp in Budgam.Afzal had mentioned in his letter that in 2001, DSP Singh “tortured and threatened him to involve him in a false case”, and wanted him to take Pakistani Lashkar and Jaish terrorists to New Delhi. As per the family, he had also told his lawyer that DSP Singh had asked him to take “Mohammad”, one of those who attacked Parliament, to Delhi, rent a flat for his stay and purchase a car for him.On his part, Naveed was a police deserter and had joined the HM ranks in 2017. On May 20 that year, he had decamped with four assault rifles from the FCI godown in central Kashmir’s Budgam district, where he was on guard duty.After the abrogation of special status to J&K in August last year, Naveed had issued a diktat to apple orchardists in south Kashmir not to sell their produce. According to police, he was involved in the killings of at least 11 non-Kashmiri workers, including truck drivers and labourers, in Pulwama , Kulgam and Shopian.Before joining the ranks of HM, Naveed was working as a constable with the J&K Police. After a series of attacks on truckers, the authorities had put up posters in various areas of Shopian with Naveed’s pictures. Rather had joined the terror organization three years ago and was involved in many crimes, police sources said.