Probe Agency NIA’s Ex-Officer Arrested For Leaking Information To Lashkar

The National Investigation Agency or NIA has arrested its former investigator, an IPS officer, who is alleged to have leaked sensitive information to Pakistani terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).

AD Negi, superintendent of police, during his tenure as an investigative officer in the NIA, had shared sensitive information with an over ground worker of Lashkar in Jammu and Kashmir, a spokesman of the Agency said.

During the investigation, the NIA said the role of “AD Negi was verified and his houses were searched”.

The officer was on deputation to the NIA. The NIA had earlier arrested six people in the case.