NIA takes over Udhampur terror attack case

The National Investigation Agency, NIA, on Thursday took over the case of Wednesday's Udhampur terror strike in which a Pakistani terrorist was caught alive. A team of NIA, headed by Inspector General Sanjeev Kumar Singh, had been camping in Jammu since Wednesday and visited the site of the encounter, official sources said. Singh has been dealing with several terror related cases including the Burdhwan blast of West Bengal. In the Udhampur attack, two heavily-armed terrorists believed to be from Pakistan ambushed a  convoy of BSF personnel and opened fire in which two constables and a militant were killed while another terrorist was caught alive by the locals. A case under Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, Arms Act and various sections of Indian Penal Code has been registered against the arrested Lashker-e-Taiba terrorist Naved Yakub, who has claimed that he hailed from Faislabad in Pakistan. His accomplice, identified by him as Noman alias Momin, was killed in retaliatory firing by BSF. PTI