Suspended Jammu & Kashmir Police officer Davinder Singh was arrested along with two HIzbul terroritss on January 11. (File Photo)

As J&K Police DSP Davinder Singh, who has been suspended, cools his heels in Jammu's Hiranagar after a special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court sent him to 15-day judicial remand, the probe agency is peering through evidence, records and seized materials. Some of them were recovered from week-long raids carried out in North and South Kashmir.

The sustained interrogation of DSP Davinder Singh has led the NIA to believe that he was a "lone wolf" i.e. he was acting on his own and not working for any intelligence agency. Sources told India Today TV that DSP Davinder Singh had been discredited much earlier and could not be relied upon.

Scan of his phone messages and several chats also indicated a "complicated lifestyle", the sources said.

Besides regular consumption of alcohol, NIA sources said their team "discovered his liaison with over a dozen women". He is said to have "spent lavishly on his several affairs". "He is a self-admitted 'sex addict' where he regularly took little blue pills (viagra)," a source told India Today TV.

In about four weeks since his arrest, Singh looks "pale and older", sources said.

They said he now often asks cops to play hymns on YouTube for him.

They claimed that Singh's "need for money" increased over the years and needed "exorbitant amounts" to sustain his lifestyle.

"Besides being a playboy, he was falling short of money to build a lavish mansion in Srinagar's Indra Nagar. He had to pay fee of his two daughters who are medical students in Bangladesh, and a teenage son studying at a leading school in Srinagar. With the anti-hijacking unit, Singh was doing well for himself, till he was caught red-handed with militants and arms," the sources said.

DSP Davinder Singh had become infamous after he joined SOG, but his name was embroiled in several controversies-from making money by selling contraband, allegations of extortions and involvement in Trath Gola (precious metal) scam.

Sources privy to the investigation say eventually the greed to make more money made Singh so blind that he put himself on a path of self-destruction.

They say he regrets it now. Singh is said to have broken down and was weeping several times with realisation creeping in that he is on verge of losing everything he built in his four-and-a-half-decade of service in the J&K Police. "Just short of retirement, he stands disgraced," they said.

Speaking to India Today TV, NIA sources said, "Singh was providing active help to Hizbul commander Naveed Babu and two of his aides." The NIA hasn't found any other connection with "anti-national activities".

The sources said, "Davinder Singh's phone has been sent to CERT-in for recovering deleted WhatsApp chats. Prima facie, no other message, chat or mail showed any reference to anti-national activity."

Fifty-five-year old DSP Singh is an old hand in counter insurgency and shot into limelight on January 11 after the J&K Police arrested him while he was transporting two Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists--Naveed Babu and Rafi Ahmed--and a lawyer--Irfan Ahmed--in a vehicle to Jammu.

It is alleged that he had made an informal pact with the Hizbul terrorists that not only will he assist the trio in crossing the Kashmir Valley to Jammu, but also keep the Hizbul terrorists at his safe house till they could escape to Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) in two months.

Sources say the deal was struck at Rs 40 lakh.

The lawyer Irfan Ahmed, had legally visited Pakistan four-five times, reportedly met the Hizbul leadership and even visited their office.

A year ago, DSP Singh allegedly got Naveed and his aide to Jammu and kept them at his Jammu residence.

"His chats (with them) were mostly on WhatsApp. He took Rs 12 lakh in cash and the rest in kind-an LED TV and some other goods," the sources said.

The NIA has also claimed to have uncovered a money trail which they say shows Irfan Ahmed had paid for DSP Singh's flight to Srinagar on instruction received from the Hizbul leadership.

During his interrogation, DSP Singh reportedly told the NIA that he would take money from Hizbul and after receiving it, he would get the militants he aided killed in an encounter.

However, sources say, "Being caught red-handed is proof enough that DSP Singh was in the wrong. There is no way to substantiate his claims that he would get militants killed, as he was abetting them escape."

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