On Saturday morning, 11 January, a private vehicle carrying four people was stopped on the Srinagar-Jammu Highway, as it passed South Kashmir’s Kulgam.

In a press conference, the Kashmir police said that this particular vehicle was driving from Shopian to Jammu and upon being stopped at a barricade, they discovered four men inside.

Inside the vehicle, police saw four men - Naveed Mushtaq, aka Naveed Babu, a former cop turned militant who was second in line to lead the Hizbul Mujahideen. Babu is also wanted in connection with the killings of migrant workers in South Kashmir. The second man was Rafi Ahmed Rather, another militant for Hizbul. The third man was Irfan Shafi, a former lawyer and an overground worker for a militant group. And the last man was the Deputy Superintendent of Police at Srinagar Airport, a decorated police officer who was awarded the President’s medal…Davinder Singh. A week before this, Singh was part of the special team that welcomed 15 foreign envoys to India.

So who is Davinder Singh?

And, as the police claim, WHY was he traveling with militants?
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