Pathankot/Gurdaspur (Punjab): As the security operations are underway to clean the Pathakot Air Force Base in Punjab, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) is focusing on investigation into the terror attack on the high-security defence facility.
Security officials said today that the combing operations may carry on for a day or two at the forward base where seven security personnel and six terrorists have been killed.
Sources in the Indian Air Force (IAF) said that every inch of the Air Force Station (AFS) was being thoroughly scanned.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday focusing into the entire terrorist attack, including any security lapses by the police and security agencies.
The combat operation ended on Tuesday with Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar announcing that six terrorists were killed. Seven security personnel, including an officer of the National Security Guards (NSG), were killed in the attack.
Parrikar admitted to “gaps” which led to “security lapses” at the air base.
The role of the Punjab Police Superintendent of Police Salwinder Singh, who claimed he was abducted by the terrorists who attacked the Pathankot air base, was put under the scanner on Tuesday evening, as a team of NIA officials questioned him at his residence in Gurdaspur.
The SP will be questioned by NIA and Punjab Police officials on Wednesday also, along with his cook Madan Gopal and businessman friend Rajesh Verma.
All three alleged that they were abducted by the terrorists in his vehicle
The police superintendent, who was transferred from here last week only, had earlier claimed that he, along with Verma and the cook, were stopped and abducted by 4-5 heavily armed terrorists near Kolia village, 25 km from Pathankot, on the night of December 31.
