Thus I became very close to Altaf's and Altaf also. In his letter, Guru briefly touched upon how a Jammu and Kashmir police officer had tortured him. Singh was named by Afzal Guru, who was hanged on 9 February 2013, in a letter that he wrote to his lawyer Sushil Kumar from Tihar jail. Afzal Guru claimed Davinder had asked him to arrange a flat in Delhi and buy a vehicle for a Pakistani militant. Thus I went with him to Karol Bagh. They intrude every house, every family everywhere in Kashmir anytime day or night. Even one of the SPO one day told me that they too have to pay their bosses. In early 2000s, Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru wrote to his lawyer making sensational claims against Jammu and Kashmir police officer Davinder Singh, who was arrested this weekend. Guru's claims were not investigated and the police officer remained in service. Even one of the policeman of the same police station of Parimpora named Akbar had extorted 5000 Rs. Being locked up in high security jail and without being in communication with that human rights lawyer I could not change him or to convey my objection regarding my death desire to high court as I came to know this after high court's decision. They too threatened me regarding my family and one of the inspector told me that my younger brother Hilal Ahmad Guru is in STF custody. Special police told me that if I will speak according to their wishes they will not harm my family members and also gave me false assurance that they will make my case weak so that after sometime I will get released. https://frontline.thehindu.com/cover-story/article30672942.ece Why Do Memories of Afzal Guru Still Haunt India’s Conscience. In special cell custody I told them everything regarding Mohammad etc. However, the question of why and how Singh escaped the radar when he was named by Afzal Guru remains unanswered. In the letter to his lawyer, Guru writes that he was first introduced to Davinder Singh after being picked up by men of Jammu and Kashmir's Special Task Force. The people who are able to pay in terms of cash are not forced to do the dirty things the way I did as I was not able to pay. https://t.co/8CcR7dfFE2, — Prashant Bhushan (@pbhushan1) January 12, 2020. Similarly, in same 2006, Davinder Singh admitted to a Kashmir Journalist Parvez Bukhari that he had tortured Afzal Guru while investigating about a terrorist Gazi Baba. Afzal Guru had previously mentioned Davinder Singh in a letter written to his lawyer in 2013, before his hanging. I never told this to my lawyer. Jammu-Kashmir DSP Devender Singh DSP Arrested Afzal Guru. From the beginning of this case I was neglected and had never been given a chance to reveal the truth before media or in court. He purchased the car. They made me to sign on at least 200-300 blank pages. Just for the survival. Rajbeer Singh's behaviour exposed my helplessness and media personnel at least came to know that what Afzal is saying under threat or duress. In the letter, Afzal alleged that Singh and other officers from the J&K police not only tortured him and extorted money, but also introduced him to one of the men who later attacked Parliament. "I did interrogate and torture him [Guru] at my camp for several days. to local SPO so as to keep myself in business otherwise these SPO make us to present us before security agencies. II. Afzal alleged in a letter to his lawyer Sushil Kumar in the Supreme Court that Davinder Singh, Deputy sp of Humhama, in Jammu and Kashmir, asked him to take Mohammad to Delhi and arrange for his stay there. When I was arrested in Srinagar bus stand I was taken to STF Headquarter from here the special police along with STF brought me to Delhi. I was never given an chance in designated court to tell the real story. for which my family sold the gold of my wife. This fact reached to the man named Altaf Hussain who is brother-in-law of S.S.P. One of his torture inspector as they called him Shanty Singh electrified me naked for 3 hours and made me drink water while giving electric shocks through telephone instrument. Ashaq Hussain of Budgam. Davinder Singh’s name cropped up when Afzal Guru, hanged for his alleged involvement in the attack on Parliament on December 13, 2001, claimed that it was the police officer who had instructed him to accompany the terrorists to Delhi and help them buy a second-hand car. Even my younger brother Hilal Ahmad Guru he was taken into police custody without any warrant etc. job due to the reason of being an surrendered militant. Afzal Guru was neither officially arrested nor there’s any record of interrogation. [Srinagar]. I replied just one hour before. After first recounting the circumstances under which he met Davinder Singh sometime in 2000, when Davinder and his assistant, Shanty Singh, tortured him at the Humhamma STF camp and then extorted money from him as well, he then wrote about a meeting in 2001, sometime before parliament was attacked: “One day Altaf took me to Dravinder Singh (D.S.P). The recent arrest of police officer Davinder Singh over allegedly bringing two terrorists into Jammu has brought to light his association with the Afzal Guru case. Read here the five reasons why Afzal Guru is seen as a martyr in Kashmir. In the same vein, Afzal maintains that he did this at the behest of the Special Task Force (STF) of the Jammu and Kashmir police. I contacted Tariq in Sgr. Then in Delhi he used to meet different persons and both of us he Mohammad and me used to get the different phone calls from Dravinder Singh. This is huge! Home › Video › India News › Dsp davinder singh terrorist connection afzal guru affidavit court jammu kashmir police nia DSP देविंदर सिंह पर 2017 पुलवामा मुठभेड़ में आतंकियों को भगाने का आरोप, अफजल गुरु से भी जुड़ा नाम Rajbir Singh. F. But since S.T.F. 6 days or 8 days before I took a rented room at Indra Vihar for my family as I decided to live in Delhi with my family because I was not satisfied with my this life. But since the police informers (SPOs) usually harass those surrendered militants who do not work with S.T.F. In the same Humhama STF camp there was one more victim named Tariq. Two AK rifles were seized from the car. Guru wrote a letter to his lawyer touching upon how the Jammu and Kashmir Police tortured him. This apparently happened days before the Parliament attack and Mohammed was later identified as one of the five terrorists who stormed the Parliament building on December 13, 2001. Taking to Twitter, the actor asked why Afzal Guru was made a "scapegoat" and hanged in 2013, despite him accusing Singh of helping one of the attackers rent a flat in Delhi. per month. Also read: Why Do Memories of Afzal Guru Still Haunt India’s Conscience? Thus after getting 1 lakh rupees they let me free. One day he told me that he want to purchase a car. Was DSP Davinder Singh on intelligence agency's payroll? Davinder Singh’s complicit with Afzal Guru. Guru's letter was addressed to lawyer Sushil Kumar, who represented him in the Supreme Court. "Ultimately I accepted to pay them 10,00,000 Rs. In the letter, Guru also alleged that Singh had tortured him in a bid to extort money. Watch: Rare Gangetic dolphin beaten to death in Uttar Pradesh's Pratapgarh, No breakthrough in fresh round of Centre-farmers' talks, next meeting on January 15, Copyright © 2021 Living Media India Limited. Davinder Singh’s complicit with Afzal Guru. Web Title : afzal guru's wife on arrest of dsp devinder singh Hindi News from Navbharat Times, TIL Network चर्चित विडियो न्यूज़ कंगना को 'Y' कैटेगरी सुरक्षा देने पर विवाद, शिवसेना नेता प्रताप सरनाईक ने उठाए सवाल At the centre of alleged link between Afzal Guru and Davinder Singh, a letter It was Singh, alleged the letter by Guru, who asked Afzal to accompany one of the five terrorists who attacked Parliament to Delhi and arrange for his stay. TV18 reported that the IGP denied having any knowledge of Singh’s connection to Afzal. [Davinder Singh] told me that I had to do a small job for him that has to took one man to Delhi as I was well aware about Delhi and has to manage a rented house for him [sic]," Guru writes in his letter. Calling the 2001 Parliament attack case convict Afzal Guru a mere "scapegoat", senior Bollywood actor Soni Razdan on Tuesday demanded a probe into J&K DySP Davinder Singh' role in the attack. I took him to Delhi. Guru also claimed that the man who attacked the parliament was introduced to him by Singh along with few others and he was asked to arrange for a car and a stay for the attacker by Singh. Whether Afzal was a terrorist, or just a surrendered militant, whose life was made hell by repeated harassment, will be, to a large extent, decided by the outcome of the investigation. STF made an [a] scapegoat in all this criminal act which was designed and directed by STF and others which I don't know. "I cannot comment on it (charges against Singh). For reprint rights: Syndications Today, Jammu and Kashmir police officer Davinder Singh (L), who was arrested this weekend for allegedly helping militants, and Afzal Guru (R) who was hanged after being convicted for the 2001 Parliament attack, What Afzal Guru wrote about Davinder Singh and Parliament attack conspiracy | Read full text of lett, arrested in Jammu and Kashmir in the company of two militants, joined the Jammu and Kashmir Police as a sub-inspector, Davinder Singh’s arrest explains why India remains vulnerable to terrorism, The black sheep of J&K Police: How DSP Davinder Singh was caught after months of surveillance. J&K DSP Devinder Singh arrested with Hizbul terrorists was once named by 2001 Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru The arrested officer, the then deputy superintendent of … Davinder Singh, in an interview with journalist Parvaiz Bukhari, had accepted he had tortured Afzal Guru In early 2000s, Mohammad Afzal Guru -- a surrendered terrorist who was convicted and later hanged for the 2001 Indian Parliament attack -- wrote a letter to his lawyer. Since I was not knowing the man but I suspected that this man is not Kashmiri as he did not speak in Kashmiri but I was helpless to do what Dravinder told me. One day Mohammad told me that if he want to go back to Kashmir he can. There were NDTV, Aaj tak, Zee news, Sahara TV etc. Everyday SPOs were get killed by militants. to him (DSP) I will be released or they will kill me. Policeman Named by Afzal Guru as Go-Between in Parliament Attack Caught with Terrorists, who was accompanying two wanted terrorists to Delhi, released a letter Guru wrote in his own hand. In the letter to his lawyer, Guru speaks of how Singh allegedly tortured him as part of a larger conspiracy to get him to pay police officers money. In a letter written in 2013, Afzal Guru, who was executed after being convicted for the Parliament attack, explained how "DSP Davinder Singh", the then deputy superintendent of police of Special Operations Group, had asked him to "take Mohammad", a co-accused in the Parliament attack case, "to Delhi, rent a flat for his stay and purchase a car for him". In early 2000s, Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru wrote to his lawyer making sensational claims against Jammu and Kashmir police officer Davinder Singh, who was arrested this weekend. In the parliament attack case I was entrapped by Special Task Force of Kashmir. A search was conducted at his residence and the police allegedly seized two pistols and one AK rifle, the officials said. Justice SN Dhingra, who originally convicted and sentenced Afzal Guru to death, told Hindustan Times that while he couldn't comment on the charges against Davinder Singh, the claims would not have made "any difference to Afzal's case". As I was working hard in my business my business flourished. I am living and organic eye-witness to various tortures and custodial killings and I am myself the victim of STF terror and torture. The arrested officer, deputy superintendent of police Davinder Singh, was named by Afzal at the time as a key go-between in the 2001 incident but his role in the parliament case was never investigated the authorities. Then they took me to Humhama STF camp where D.S.P. Afzal Guru was a Kashmiri and, like many Kashmiris, he believed in the idea of Aazadi (Freedom). The two militants caught with Davinder Singh,  who is posted as DSP at Srinagar airport, are Naveed Babu, said to be top commander of the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba and Altaf of the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen. As I know from last seven years how the SIF men kill the Kashmiris, how they had made youth invisible and had disappeared them while killing them in custody. Photo: Reuters/Danish Ismail. After finishing my phone he told me if I want to see my wife & family alive I must co operate [with] them at every step. D.S. Singh’s name made it to the headlines when Afzal Guru, 2001 Parliament Attack convict blamed Singh for torturing and extorting money. PTI / Updated: Jan 13, 2020, 11:56 IST. But now I was a broken person [sic]," Guru writes in the letter to his lawyer. However, he does claim that the "special police" was "definitely part of [the] game". New Delhi: The dramatic arrest on Saturday of a senior Jammu and Kashmir police officer who was accompanying two wanted terrorists to Delhi has revived the debate over not just illicit links between the security establishment and Kashmir militants but also the role of Afzal Guru in the 2001 terrorist attack on parliament. Once named by Afzal Guru, J; Once named by Afzal Guru, J&K DSP Davinder Singh to be interrogated after being held with two Hizbul terrorists. On social media, following the arrest of the officer, senior lawyer Prashant Bhushan, activist Kavita Krishnan, journalist Rana Ayyub, and J&K People's Movement leader Shehla Rashid purportedly attempted to resurrect the Afzal Guru case, by linking it to Davinder Singh's recent arrest. If phone numbers recorded will be seen carefully the court would have come to know the phone numbers of STF. - 5000 Rs. It is not clear why Singh was taking Naveed and Altaf to Delhi, especially since Delhi is usually placed on high alert in the run up to Republic Day on January 26 when the police say terrorist groups like to stage a high-profile attack. “There are no such records. Here I found myself in special police torture cell. Afzal’s guilt was decided primarily on his association with Mohammad, the terrorist he was introduced to by officer Davinder Singh. Then they took the scooter too which was just 2-3 months old which I bought for 24000 Rs. I hope my forced silence will be heard and justice will prevail. When one of the interviewer Shams tahir told me what is the role of Geelani in parliament attack, I just said that Geelani is innocent. Guru was hanged for his involvement in the attack in 2013. This doesn't make any difference to Afzal's case, as that is now done with. Davinder Singh would be questioned for his links with Afzal Guru Afzal had also named another officer Shanty Singh, who along with Singh allegedly tortured him at the STF camp. Rajbir Singh. for which my family sold the gold of my wife. The judge told me that I will be given full opportunity to speak at the end of case but at the end he even did not recorded my all statements neither the court gave me whatever even court recorded. Under these circumstances and under this fearful environment persons like me are always ready to play any dirty game in the hands of S.T.F. One such is a letter written by Mohammad Afzal Guru -- a surrendered terrorist who was convicted and later hanged for the 2001 Indian Parliament attack. J&K Cop Davinder Singh’s ‘Afzal Link’ & Other Unanswered Questions. Jammu-Kashmir DSP Devender Singh DSP Arrested Afzal Guru Trending Stories अमेरिका में और बढ़ा कोरोना वायरस का खतरा, एक करोड़ लोगों की होगी जांच I told them this is not possible. 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