ADGP Prabodh to probe Dinanagar terror attack

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, April 26

Director General of Police Suresh Arora today handed over the investigation in the Dinanagar terror attack to ADGP Prabodh Kumar. He has also been entrusted the inquiry into all cases of attacks on Shiv Sena and RSS shakhas. So far, it was being handled by ADGP Rohit Chowdhry.

Kumar has returned to the state after deputation with the CBI. ADGP (Railways) Rohit Chowdhry was heading a Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the Dinanagar attack till now. The ADGP had publicly raised some issues on the preparedness of the police after the Dinanagar attack. He had also written a letter to Jammu and Kashmir Governor N N Vohra who had criticised the police operation in Dinanagar in a function in New Delhi.

Chowdhry had also recently raised the issue of slow working of police control rooms. He had pointed out that it took six hours for Police control rooms to spread the alert of a car snatching by terrorists in Pathankot.

Prabodh has vast investigative experience during his 14 year stint in the CBI, a police spokesperson said.

Important cases, including the Dinanagar attack, recovery of explosives from a railway track in Gurdaspur, attack on an RSS Shakha in Ludhiana, the recent murder of Durga Gupta in Khanna and two other cases of attacks on Shiv Sena activists will be supervised by him.

In addition, the DGP has also deputed Prabodh Kumar as the Nodal Officer from Punjab Police for effecting necessary liaison and co-ordination with the National Investigation Agency (NIA) regarding the Pathankot Airbase terrorist attack, the spokesman added.