Pathankot: A disturbing fact that three floodlights were turned upwards on the night of the Pathankot attack has been unearthed by the agencies probing into the case, hinting at a possible role of an insider helping in the execution of the Indian Air Force Base attack..
The Indian Express reported on Friday that investigators have detained and are questioning an employee of the Army’s Military and Engineering Services (MES) in connection with the development.

It is now alleged that the said MES employee may be a compromised person who may have helped the terrorists infiltrate into the airbase on the intervening night of January 1 and 2.

The terrorists are believed to have entered the airbase by climbing an 11-foot-high wall and when the breach happened, floodlights deployed in that area were found “turned upward” and directed away from the stretch of the wall, thereby making the area a zone of darkness.

Also, the ‘Y’ iron angles on the wall that hold the razor wire in place were also found to have been tampered along the stretch and the wire was cut through.

All this has led to speculation that the infiltration may have been a result of an ‘insider job’.

The Army employee who is under suspicion was recently transferred to Pathankot from the Udhampur airbase, the report said.