Is Davinder Singh made a Sacrificial Lamb?
Syed Ali Mujtaba
Let’s read the story once again; “Davinder Singh, posted as
the deputy superintendent of police, was arrested along with Naveed Babu, self-styled
district commander of banned Hizbul Mujahideen, a new recruit Atif and an
advocate Irfan Mir. The four were caught with arms and ammunition while they
were travelling in a car near Qazigund, on the national highway in South
Kashmir.”
This childish story when read in cold print or coming from
the mouth of news anchors on Television, evokes grin on the face and laughter of
the lips because it can not be swallowed without a pinch of salt.
How come, overnight a mid-ranking police officer who played a
high profile in the conflict zone of J&K can become a black sheep and get arrested so childishly. Since the antecedents of this story cannot be independently verified, the first reaction is there is something fishy in this reportage. It appears that this story is deliberately planted
by the security agencies to ‘cover-up’ to some goof up in the counter terror operations in J&K.
As Davinder Singh story is hogging the lime light in the media,
it is essential to go into the merits of this case and come out with some
conjectures that our mind can digest?
There are five theories that can be built around Davinder Singh’s arrest case. The first is he was the cop who had
links with terrorists and the state police intercepted his car on the national
highway and arrested him along with three so called terrorists.
This story hardly appeals to human senses and raises questions that triggers our mind like busy bees making it to probe deeper into the varsity of this planted
scoop.
This high profile cop who a few days ago was seen
near the aircraft that disembarked foreign diplomats to Srinagar to assess the
situation in the valley, suddenly gets arrested a few days later, that too in a casual way sounds mysterious.
Over night this poster boy of J&K police becomes a anti national and double agent who is hand in gloves with the terrorists. In a conflict zone like Kashmir, where even every
civilian’s activity is marked by security sleuths, how come a uniformed police officer
be allowed to operate without any surveillance? Certainly this baloney story deserves to be archived for
journalism students to cite as examples of concocted and peddled stories in their term papers.
The second theory is
Davinder Singh was a corrupt police officer who can do anything for money. He worked for money, irrespective of the source
of funding. This theory by default makes Davinder Singh an entrepreneur cop
who was making best use of the conflict situation.
Some facts are issued by the source to support the entrepreneur cop theory fails the test of logic and raises the fundamental questions; how a police officer with dubious records is allowed to function that too in such a high profile way in an extremely sensitive zone of conflict. So the entrepreneur theory looks blatantly untrue as again this is a one sided account peddled as true.
The third theory that is making rounds is that Davinder Singh
was working for some intelligence agency and has become victim of inter
services rivalries while operating in the conflict situation. This theory looks more palatable if we link it with the words of
Davinder Singh, who when questioned before his arrest said, ‘this is a game
and asked the sleuths not to spoil this game.'
The fourth theory is that Davinder
Singh was a pawn in government’s deep state operations. A deep state is a form
of clandestine government’s operation made up of hidden or covert networks of
power operates working independently n pursuit of some hidden agenda. The deep state agents are parallel operators who may work in opposition to the publicly stated agenda of the government. The government uses such agents to pursue its hidden objectives. In return the agents gets job security, enhanced power and gains or favors from the government.
In Davinder Singh case, the hidden objective was to bring
some militants to the national capital through state channel and then plant a
story in the media of government foiling a terrorist attack in Delhi on the eve of Republic day parade.
The deep state theory looks more palatable and exposes the chinks in the counter terror operations in J&K. It appears that there was a total lack of coordination among the nuts and bolts of deep state operators which had led to this goof up and Davinder Singh was sacrificed on
the altar of deep state conspiracy.
The last theory has religious overtones and is related to the Sikh by faith of the J&K cop. Davinder Singh was picked up because the Sikh community in J&K is siding with the overwhelming Kashmiri sentiments against the abrogation of Article 370. His faith seems to have irked the Central government that hatched up a conspiracy to trap him to set an example for other Sikhs to learn lessons from his arrest. As we know that this is is a very sensitive theory but its true that it sets the cat before the pigeon.
The latest news about Davinder Singh’s story is, the
National Investigation Agency (NIA) has received orders from the Union Home
Ministry to register a case against J&K cop and others and it has started the investigation.
Well such probes will always
be as one sided as the story being circulated in the media and it will never bring the real truth into the public domain. This is more
so when there is some tacit involvement of the intelligence agencies or the
central government in such cases. In sum, Davinder Singh has been put behind bars to cover up something fishy and has been made a sacrificial lamb.
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Syed Ali Mujtaba is a journalist based in Chennai. He can be
contacted at syedalimujtaba2007@gmail.com
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