NEW DELHI: NIA today summoned the caretaker of a shrine in Punjab which an SP rank officer had claimed to have visited before being kidnapped by terrorists who attacked the Pathankot Air Force base hours later.
The NIA summoned Somraj, the caretaker of Panj Peer Dargah located a few kilometres from Bamiyal, the village from where the terrorists were suspected to have infiltrated India before mounting the attack, official sources said.
Somraj’s statement that Salwinder Singh, a Superintendent of Police rank officer, had came to the shrine for the first time before the attack and that his jeweller friend Rajesh Verma and his cook Madan Gopal had visited the dargah twice the same day had raised eyebrows as the police officer has claimed he was a regular visitor.
Singh, who is being quizzed for second successive day today at the NIA headquarters, continued to face tough questions from from interrogators who have been asking him about various “loop-holes” in his statement given to Punjab Police wherein he had claimed he had been blindfolded by the terrorists who spoke in Hindi, Urdu and Kashmiri languages.(Agencies)
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