Srinagar: National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday arrested its former Superintendent of Police (SP) and IPS officer Arvind Digvijay Negi for allegedly leaking secret documents to an overground worker of the banned militant organization Lashkar-e-Taiba, its official spokesperson said.
The spokesperson said that Negi, a police officer who was promoted to the IPS batch of 2011, was arrested in connection with a case registered by the NIA on November 6 last year.
The case pertains to the spread of a network of over ground workers (OGWs) of the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) for providing support in planning and execution of militant activities in India.
“During the investigation, the role of A D Negi, IPS, SP posted at Shimla (since repatriated from NIA) was verified and his houses were searched. It was also found that official secret documents of the NIA were leaked by A D Negi to another accused person who is an OGW of LeT in the case,” the spokesperson added.
Earlier in 2020 top police officer Davinder Singh was arrested by the Jammu and Kashmir Police when he was ferrying militants of the banned Hizbul Mujahideen .
Singh, who has been accused by the NIA of providing support to banned group Hizbul Mujahideen, was tasked to establish a “contact” in the Ministry of External Affairs for carrying out espionage activities.
