The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday filed a chargesheet against Kashmir-based rights activist Khurram Parvez and its former decorated officer — Superintendent of Police Arvind Digvijay Negi among others in its probe related to funding and recruitment of overground workers (OGWs) by Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) in Jammu and Kashmir.
Negi has been charged under the Official Secrets Act (OSA), corruption and criminal conspiracy for allegedly leaking official secret documents to other accused persons for monetary considerations as well as demanding money for compromising investigation. He was probing terror-funding cases in the NIA for several years.Negi was part of the probe team that carried out searches at rights activist Khurram Parvez’s residence in October 2020 as part of the NGO terror-funding case; apart from the agency’s larger conspiracy terror funding probe in J&K of 2017. He had received a president’s medal for meritorious service for his investigation into the J&K terror-funding case involving the Hurriyat leadership. A thorough chargesheet filed by him in the Hurriyat case had brought out the role of Pakistan and its spy agency ISI in radicalising the youth of the Valley for anti-India activities, including organising stone pelting, dharnas, etc for which funding was received by Hurriyat leaders.
