New Delhi(NVI): The Jammu and Kashmir Police today said DSP Davinder Singh, who was arrested along with two Hizbul Mujahideen militants on January 11, has not been awarded any gallantry medal by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), as being reported by some media outlets.
The only gallantry medal awarded to him during his service is by the erstwhile J&K state on Independence Day in 2018 for countering a ‘Fidayeen’ (suicide) attack by terrorists at District Police Lines, Pulwama, on August 25/26, 2017 when he was posted there as Deputy SP, it said in a series of tweets.
“Jammu Kashmir Police is known for its professionalism & doesn’t spare anyone including its own cadres if found involved in any unlawful act or unbecoming conduct.
“We have done it in the past in many cases and now in this particular case where it has caught its own officer on its own input and action and would continue to abide by our code of conduct and the Law of the Land which is same for everyone,” it said.
The police said a special investigation team is handling the interrogation of the arrested accused officer and the terrorists. The team “would probe his criminal conduct in the instant case and his involvement in any such criminal acts in the past,” the police added.
Singh was arrested on Srinagar-Jammu national highway for allegedly ferrying two militants.
