Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "2016 Pathankot attack" in English language version.
Known for his "closeness" to Sucha Singh Langah, former Akali minister from Gurdaspur, Salwinder's other claim to fame, or rather infamy, has been his colourful "extra-curricular activities", for which he is facing two inquiries....In 1991, when he was training at the Punjab Police Academy, Phillaur, for promotion to the post of sub-inspector, other trainees recall that he allegedly got involved in a scandal with a woman employee in the principal's office. "But no action was taken against him. However, all other trainees had to bear the brunt of his actions," a fellow trainee said....Very soon, he became closely associated with Langah. The latter remained a minister twice in the Parkash Singh Badal cabinet, first in 1997-2002 and then in 2007-12. Last year, Langah was convicted and sentenced to three years' imprisonment by a Mohali court in a case of disproportionate assets, but the conviction was later suspended by the Punjab and Haryana high court. The ex-minister has a 100-acre farmhouse in the border belt, not very far from where the SP was travelling the night he was abducted....The complainants, five widows posted as constables in the SSP's office, were allegedly being harassed by SP (headquarters) Salwinder. They had been inducted into the police on compassionate grounds. "In their statements recorded by the anti-sexual harassment committee, they alleged that Salwinder used to ask them to call him at odd/late hours. He would offer to protect them in case they needed assistance and also offered to help them retain their positions in the SSP's office. When one of them rebuffed him, he transferred her and then offered to get her back," said Jatinder Singh Aulakh, police commissioner, Amritsar, who is a member of the committee. To make matters worse for the SP, a fact-finding inquiry was instituted by the Punjab DGP on January 8 after a Tanda-based woman accused Salwinder of bigamy. Dhanpreet Kaur, Hoshiarpur SSP, is conducting the probe. Tanda resident Karanjit Kaur claimed that she exchanged vows with Salwinder in a Jalandhar gurdwara in 1994 and has a son from the marriage. She alleged that he married her despite being already married.
It seems a lost walkie-talkie or a handheld transceiver saved the Pathankot airbase from suffering large-scale damage. The transmitter, carried by the four terrorists who kidnapped the SP to use his vehicle to reach Pathankot, was left by mistake in the SP's car when they disembarked from the vehicle in the wee hours of 1 January. The transmitter was to be used to contact the other team of two (or more) terrorists within the base to launch a coordinated attack. A similar transmitter has been recovered from near the area where the two terrorists were killed. "The reason that the terrorists did not launch the attack even 24 hours after they arrived is because they could not contact the other team which was already inside the base or was to get in touch with them on arrival on the walkie-talkie," said a senior Punjab intelligence officer. This day-long wait by the terrorists gave ample time to security agencies to secure the base and call in additional forces to fight the terrorists.
"During their conversation in the SP's vehicle they kept saying that their mission would be known to all by the morning, which means that they had planned to strike the minute they landed inside the base. But they did not attack till they were engaged by the security forces the next morning. It could well be because they could not get in touch with the other team," he added.
It was a nylon rope, looped from the ground up over the Pathankot Air Force Base's 11-foot-high perimeter wall and then down again. Little genius had been needed to pull off the feat: one member of the assault team had climbed up one of the eucalyptus trees growing along the fence, and bent it over with his weight on to the wall. Helping them was the dark – the floodlights in that stretch of the wall were not working that night. Hundreds of Defence Security Corps guards tasked with guarding that fence, the last line of defence for one of India's most vital forward bases, had failed to notice as the assault team lugged themselves, 50 kg of ammunition, 30 kg of grenades, and their assault weapons.
A senior central agency officer, who is analysing the calls, confirmed that Ikaagar did not speak to any Pakistani number. "On this number, in fact, the terrorist is heard telling the attacker to kill the taxi driver," the official told TOI.
