Pathankot attack: Did former IAF official help Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorists?

#Pathankot : Air Force official Ranjith KK was arrested on December 28 by Delhi Police. After a week-long probe, National Investigation Agency (NIA) officials are now zeroing in on the role of India-based Pak spies in the Pathankot terror attack. Sources said Air Force official Ranjith KK, who was arrested on December 28 from Bathinda by Delhi Police may have helped the Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorists mastermind the terror attack.

Sources said Bathinda Air Force official Ranjith KK, who was arrested on December 28 from Bhatinda by Delhi Police, may have helped Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorists to mastermind the terror that shook the nation.

Ranjith – who had joined the Air Force as an Airman five years ago – was allegedly honey-trapped into spying for ISI. He was court martialled and dismissed from service a day before he was arrested by the police from Bathinda.

Ranjith was under surveillance for the last three months and was allegedly caught passing sensitive information about the air force base to woman Damini McNaught, who had introduced herself as a UK-based media firm representative.

Sources said the and Pathankot Millitary Engineering Services (MES) lineman to find out whether both were in touch with each other. The agencies – in order to establish the role of guides who may have helped the terrorists strike the air force base – are scanning the phone calls made by Ranjith and the lineman.

The NIA officials have seized lineman’s mobile phone sim card. The MES official was taken into custody for questioning last week when three flood lights of the area used by the terrorists to scale the station’s boundary wall were found turned upward. Some of the floodlights were not functioning. All this is believed to have been done to facilitate the terrorists scale the wall which was thrown into darkness when the terrorists struck the air base.

The arrested lineman was responsible for maintaining the lights which make the 11-foot wall visible throughout the night.

NIA officials, besides the lineman, have also questioned another air base official in connection with the flood light mischief.

Unconfirmed sources even said the lineman and Ranjit had exchanged phone calls before the attack.

The NIA officials – who are scanning the phone records of both – are, however, yet to confirm the allegations.

NIA sleuths are also questioning another Air Force employee-turned-spy Sunil Kumar who was arrested on spying charges on August 30, 2014.

Sunil Kumar was accused of selling strategic information about the Air Force Station to a woman who is believed to be a Pak spy. Story  by India today,