The National Investigation Agency) today took over the case of yesterday's Udhampur terror strike in which a Pakistani terrorist, who was caught alive by villagers, has said that he had undergone training in two different modules with Lashker-e-Tayiba terror group.    

A team of NIA, a central probe agency created after the2008 Mumbai attack, headed by Inspector General Sanjeev Kumar Singh, has been camping in Jammu since yesterday and has 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 in a manner identical to the nabbing of 26/11 attacker Ajmal Kasab.    

A case under Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, Arms Act and various sections of Indian Penal Code has been registered against the arrested Lashkar terrorist Mohammed 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 the BSF.