NEW DELHI: Team of National Investigation Agency (NIA) and Anti-Terrorism Squad of Uttar Pradesh were attacked on Sunday during a raid in connection with 'Shaikh Abdul Naeem of LeT' case.
The incident took place in Ghaziabad's Bhojpur area today.
As per a report, the officials of NIA and UP's ATS were fired upon by criminals as the teams were conducting a raid in the area.
One of the policemen received a bullet injury during the firing and was rushed to a hospital in Meerut. Several others were also injured during the attack, said the report.
Days after security agencies nabbed alleged Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) operative Abdul Naeem Sheikh, another LeT terrorist was also arrested from Bihar on Saturday.
On November 28, alleged Lashkar-e-Toiba operative Shaikh Abdul Naeem, 37, and is being called Headley 2, was arested from Lucknow.
Naeem is serving a prison sentence at a US jail for his involvement in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks.
Naeem allegedly visited Kashmir to carry out a recce mission involving some vital installations, including Army camps and power projects. The officials claimed that he had also visited some places in Himachal Pradesh, especially Kasol.
He is also reported to have prepared several videos of Army bases and camps in Kashmir.
The investigative agency claimed Sheikh had been roped in on the same lines as David Headley, a Pakistan- American terrorist serving a 35-year prison sentence in the US for involvement in terror activities and the 26/11 Mumbai attacks in 2008.
