New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday arrested its former Superintendent of Police (SP) and IPS officer Arvind Digvijay Negi for allegedly leaking secret documents to an overground worker of the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba terror group.
The spokesperson said that Negi, a police officer who was promoted to the IPS batch of 2011, was arrested in connection with a case registered by the NIA on November 6 last year.
“During the investigation, the role of Negi, posted as SP in Shimla, was verified, and his houses were searched. It was found that official secret documents of the NIA were leaked by him to another accused person, who is an over-ground worker of Lashkar-e-Taiba,” the NIA said in a statement.
The central agency said, “The case was registered on November six last year and pertained to the growing network of Lashkar OGWs in J&K and other places for providing support in the planning and execution of terror activities in the country. The NIA had earlier arrested six persons in the case even as the investigation continued.”
Negi was awarded the Police Medal for Meritorious Service for his investigation into the Hurriyat terror funding case. Promoted to the IPS in 2016, he was repatriated to his cadre (HP) after the completion of 11 years and three months of deputation with the NIA.
(_Vinayak)