Singh said the National Investigation Agency (NIA), which was recently handed over the probe in the case, will investigate "where the truth lies" amid conflicting versions by the Delhi police and Jammu and Kashmir police on his arrest from near the Indo-Nepal border.
"The case (of Liyaqat) has been given to NIA to investigate. They will investigate and they will find out where the truth lies. Whether he (Liyaqat) was coming for genuinely surrendering or whether there was some game behind it...Whatever...It will all be clarified.
NIA will conduct a probe into the circumstances leading to the arrest of Shah from near the Indo-Nepal border by the Delhi Police which had claimed that it had foiled a 'fidayeen' (suicide) attack in the capital with his arrest ahead of Holi.
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah had said that Shah was returning from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) to surrender as part of a militant rehabilitation policy and demanded a probe by NIA.
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