A former sarpanch from Shopian district in Jammu and Kashmir, arrested by the National Investigation Agency in connection with the DSP Davinder Singh case, had contested the 2014 assembly elections from Wanchi, south Kashmir, as a BJP candidate.

According to sources in the NIA, Tariq Ahmed Mir (30) was an “arms conduit”, and was supplying ammunition on a regular basis to Hizbul Mujahiddin and other terror organisations.

Mir’s election affidavit listed his email id as “[email protected]”, and said he is a resident of Shopian. The affidavit also said he has never been charged with any criminal offence and does not have any criminal case registered against him.

Interestingly, though Mir claimed to be a businessman in his affidavit, in the column asking for details of last income tax return and income, he wrote “Nil”.

He also mentioned that he had “Nil” investments, “Nil” loans, “Nil” movable assets, “Nil” cash in hand, no cars or any other vehicles, no jewellery, no land — agricultural or commercial — and no inherited property. He just mentioned one property, where he resides, as being in his father’s name.

In the affidavit, he also mentioned a “loan to bank” of Rs 7lakh that he took from the Jammu and Kashmir Bank, but showed his liabilitiesas “Rs 3 lakh”. “He claims to be a businessman but he has no assets, no cash,no land, no IT returns. He does not even mention what kind of business he runs.It is all very suspicious,” a source in the NIA said.