NIA officials sold veggies to trap terror suspect

Indore: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested Zahirul Sheikh, key accused in the 2014 Burdwan bombing case, two days before the Independence Day from Indore, Madhya Pradesh.

In order to trap Sheikh, some of the NIA officials even posed as vegetable sellers in the Kohinoor colony, the area where Sheikh used to live. The NIA was looking for Sheikh for a long time.

Sources had informed the police about the whereabouts of Sheikh, who was working as a painter and a labourer in Indore.

The NIA team performed the operation in total secrecy, without even informing the local police. "Azad Nagar police helped the NIA team to arrest a person.

The police verification of the tenant was not done as the landlord did not inform the police about it," Additional Director General of Police Varun Kapoor told mediapersons here.