NIA teams with Punjab police and local villagers are carrying out searches in the nearby villages on the route taken by the terrorists. (AFP file photo)
Continuing with its probe in the terror strike on Pathankot air base, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) today recovered a Chinese-make wireless set from the vehicle of senior Punjab police officer which was hijacked by terrorists before abandoning it a kilometre away from the facility.
A Home Ministry spokesman said a NIA team found the wireless set in the car in which the terrorists travelled to the Air Force base on the intervening night of December 31 and January 1.
The spokesperson said that the data in the wireless set had been deleted and the equipment was sent to CFSL Chandigarh for a joint examination with experts from National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO) for retrieving the deleted data.
This wireless set is similar to one recovered from the site of attack in Sambha on March 20 last year, the spokesperson said in a statement.
The NIA teams, after establishing route taken by Jaish-e- Mohammed terrorists from the point where Superintendent of Police-rank officer Salwinder Singh's car was hijacked to the IAF base, were looking for clues with the help of local villagers.
"NIA teams are collecting CCTV footage on the route taken by terrorists to Air Force Base," the spokesperson said.
NIA teams with Punjab police and local villagers are carrying out searches in the nearby villages on the route taken by the terrorists for evidence left behind by terrorists like clothes, electronic devices, the spokesperson said.
Mr Singh, who is posted as Assistant Commandant in the 75th battalion of Punjab Armed Police after being shunted as SP (Headquarters) of Gurdaspur, was questioned for the third day today.