The security agencies on Tuesday arrested a terror suspect, Abdul Naeem, alias ‘Headley II’ in Varanasi. Naeem is alleged to have worked for 26/11 accused Abu Jundal.
like David Coleman Headley, the Pakistani-origin American terrorist, who played a key role in planning the 2008 terror attacks in cahoots with lashkar-e-Tayyeba (leT). Naeem is alleged to have made videos of Army camps in Kashmir, and power plants, and also reportedly visited Kasol in Himachal Pradesh to give shape to a plan to attack foreigner tourists there.
Sources said that NIA and Uttar Pradesh ATS are carrying out raids in Varanasi to nab Naeem’s associates.
Naeem was reportedly planning a terror attack in Delhi, UP and Himachal Pradesh. Sources said that Naeem’s handler has also been arrested from a Middle East country.
The security agencies were looking for Naeem after he escaped from the police custody in 2014 while he was being taken to Mumbai to from Kolkata’s Dum Dum jail. He jumped from the running train and escaped.