NIA files charge sheet against PDP’s Waheed Para in Davinder Singh case

The National Investigation Agency on Monday filed a supplementary charge sheet against People’s Democratic Party leader Waheed Para and two others in a terror case in which suspended Jammu and Kashmir police officer Davinder Singh was arrested last year.

The supplementary charge sheet accused Para, Shaheen Ahmad Lone and Tafazul Hussain Parimoo of criminal conspiracy under Section 120B of the IPC. They have been also charged unded sections 17, 18, 38, 39 & 40 of UAPA and Section 25 (1AA) of Arms Act and Section 6 of the Explosive Substances Act at an NIA special court in Jammu, according to a news release. Charge sheet against eight people in the case were filed earlier.

NIA alleged Lone and Parimoo were part of gun runners from across the Line of Control for terrorists of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen and Lashkar e Taiba. Para was a part of a conspiracy which also raised and transferred funds to Hizb terrorists for procuring terrorist hardware, NIA alleged. The PDP leader played an important role in ‘sustaining political-separatist-terrorist nexus’ in Jammu and Kshmir, NIA alleged.


Singh, a former deputy SP of J&K police, was arrested in January 2020 and has been named by NIA in the first charge sheet. The NIA special court is yet to take cognisance of the charge sheet against Singh and others.