New Delhi: India is likely to press for access to Tahawwur Hussain Rana, and wife and two girlfriends of Mumbai attack terrorist David Headley during Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde's visit to the United States next week. Government sources said though India got access to Headley, who carried out a recce of the 26/11 targets for the Pakistan-based terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba, the US has not given any opportunity to question Pakistani-Canadian Rana, Headley's US-based wife Shazia, his girlfriend Portia Peter and one more female friend.
Indian investigators believe that if they could quiz the three, many hidden information could come into light as Rana was a close associate of his Pakistani-American friend Headley, and Shazia and the two girlfriends were in regular touch with Headley before and after the Mumbai terror attack. The investigators believe that Rana, Shazia and others have a lot of information and their interrogations could throw more light on the conspiracy hatched to carry out the worst terror strike in India and role of those behind it.
"The Home Minister and his delegation is expected to raise the issue of access to Rana and others," a source said. 51-year-old Headley had pleaded guilty to 12 terrorism charges, including his involvement in the November 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai that claimed 166 lives. He had, however, entered into plea bargain with US authorities.
A court in the US had sentenced 52-year-old Rana to 14 years in jail followed by five years of supervised release.
08:00 PM, May 16, 2013
India on January 31 said it will seek access to Tahawwur Rana, an accomplice of convicted terrorist David Headley from the US and maintained that its demand for their extradition "continues to stand" to take forward its legal processes in Mumbai terror strike cases. ...
06:45 PM, Jan 31, 2013
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02:21 AM, Jan 30, 2013
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09:02 AM, Jan 26, 2013
India shouldn't follow rich nations which practice free market economy without social obligations, says President Pranab Mukherjee. ...
10:34 PM, Jan 25, 2013
Pakistani terror group Lashkar-e-Toiba operative and 2008 Mumbai attacks conspirator David Coleman Headley has been sentenced to 35 years in jail but India has expressed its unhappiness about the verdict delivered by a Chicago court on Thursday. ...
10:03 PM, Jan 25, 2013
The BJP on Friday demanded death penalty for LeT terrorist David Headley, the plotter of 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, and asked the Centre to press for his extradition from the US to face trial in India to find out the larger conspiracy by Pakistan-based elements. ...
09:00 PM, Jan 25, 2013
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08:06 PM, Jan 25, 2013
Does the long jail term for Headley mean that he won't be extradited to India? CNN-IBN's senior editor Suhasini Haidar joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. ...
05:44 PM, Jan 25, 2013
Terming the 35-year sentence awarded to David Headley as "inadequate and disproportionate", special 26/11 public prosecutor in India Ujjwal Nikam on Friday said he should now be made an approver in the case being tried in Pakistan to punish the perpetrators. ...
04:08 PM, Jan 25, 2013
Pakistani-American Headley received a 35 year jail term on January 24 by a Chicago court. ...
03:34 PM, Jan 25, 2013
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02:00 PM, Jan 25, 2013
David Headley was sentenced to 35 years in jail on Thursday by a Chicago court. ...
01:32 PM, Jan 25, 2013
David Coleman Headley, one of the conspirators of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, was sentenced on Thursday to 35 years in prison. Headley, 52, whose meticulous scouting missions facilitated the assault by 10 gunmen from a Pakistani-based militant group, which killed 160 people - including children. ...
01:05 PM, Jan 25, 2013
After External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said India would have given 26/11 convict David Coleman Headley a longer term in jail, Home Secretary RK Singh has now said that Headley should be given death sentence. "We want death sentence for Headley and those who were involved killing of 165 people in Mumbai. We will keep asking for death sentence," RK Singh said. ...
12:30 PM, Jan 25, 2013
Former Indian diplomat KC Singh said that the sentencing of 26/11 convict David Headley may help in yielding more information. "In the Mumbai blast case of 1993, we are still picking up people related to that. There is no time limit to catch a criminal and bring him to justice even if it is after many years. Headley, having got his sentence, might weave another story or might yield more ...
10:12 AM, Jan 25, 2013
The 2008 Mumbai attacks conspirator David Headley was sentenced to 35 years in jail by a Chicago court on Thursday. ...
09:16 AM, Jan 25, 2013
26/11 senior public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam has expressed his dissatisfaction at the 35-year prison sentence handed over to David Headley. ...
09:08 AM, Jan 25, 2013
Rahul Bhatt, the son of Bollywood filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt, was embroiled in a controversy after it emerged that David Headley had met him during his India visit. ...
08:58 AM, Jan 25, 2013
A "remorseful" Pakistani-American LeT terrorist David Headley made a last ditch effort to have his sentence reduced by writing an emotional letter to the judge claiming he is a changed man and was sorry of his past doings. However, US District Judge Harry D Leinenweber, in the court room acknowledging the receipt of such a letter, publicly told Headley that he had difficulties sin believing him given his past record....
08:17 AM, Jan 25, 2013
