NIA gets 15-day custody of arrested PDP leader Parra

Tribune News Service
New Delhi, November 27

A special court in Jammu today remanded PDP’s youth leader Waheed Parra to a15-day NIA custody for interrogation in an ongoing terror case. Parra was arrested by the NIA earlier this week for allegedly conspiring with Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists to get their support during the 2019 parliamentary elections.

Sources in the NIA said, the arrested PDP leader was taken to Jammu and produced before a designated NIA court in a case related to his alleged “close links” with Irfan Shafi Mir, who was arrested along with Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist Naveed Babu and suspended Deputy Superintendent of Police Davinder Singh earlier this year.

After his arrest on Wednesday, the NIA produced Parra in a Delhi court on Thursday and sought a transit remand for his production before a designated court in Jammu, they said.

Sources also revealed that during the investigation into the suspended DSP’s association with Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists, the NIA came across phone records of Mir, which showed that he was in close contact with Parra. Mir had claimed during questioning that Parra sought his support during the 2019 Lok Sabha elections for his party candidate Mehbooba Mufti, the president of the PDP, the sources said.