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
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08:49 PM, Apr 25, 2013
Mumbai: Abu Jundal, an alleged operative of terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba and a key handler during the 26/11 terror attacks, has approached Bombay High Court seeking that he should not be kept in solitary confinement in the same cell where Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab once stayed. Jundal has been lodged in Arthur Road prison in central Mumbai. His cell was earlier occupied by Kasab, the lone arrested terrorist of 26/11 attacks,...
07:53 PM, Apr 24, 2013
Six months after the police filed the chargesheet against suspected LeT operative and key plotter of 26/11 Mumbai terror strike Sayed Zabiuddin Ansari, the trial is set to start. ...
10:28 PM, Apr 03, 2013
The trial of seven Pakistani suspects, including Lashkar-e-Taiba commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, charged with involvement in the Mumbai attacks was on Saturday adjourned for two weeks as the judge was away to attend a training course. ...
08:40 PM, Mar 16, 2013
Owner of the boat 'Kuber', that was used in the 26/11 terror attack, has served a legal notice on film director Ram Gopal Verma who has used the boat's name and even its registration number in his film 'Attack of 26/11' which will release tomorrow. ...
11:04 AM, Mar 01, 2013
The US has said it continues to seek information on LeT founder and 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed that can convict him in the court of law. However, it refused to comment on the detailed interview given by the Mumbai attack mastermind, arguing that it does not want to "dignify" someone on which the US has declared a reward of $10 million for information leading to his conviction. ...
04:47 PM, Feb 09, 2013
Terming the sentencing of LeT terrorist David Headley as a "positive example" of Indo-US counterterrorism cooperation, the United States defended the verdict, saying justice has been served as promised. "We promised that justice would be served, that justice is being served in this case," State Department spokesperson, Victoria Nuland told reporters, when asked about India's reservations over the court ruling. ...
09:02 AM, Jan 26, 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
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
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
In his first reaction on David Headley's sentencing, Minister of External Affairs Salman Khurshid told CNN-IBN in an exclusive interview that India would have sought a longer jail term for 26/11 Mumbai attacks conspirator, had he been tried in India. He, however, added that he was satisfied with the prison term extended to him by the US. ...
09:53 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
There is still some possibility of extraditing Pakistani-American LeT terrorist David Headley to India, if the Mumbai terror attacks convict violates his plea agreement, a US federal Attorney has indicated. Going into rare hypothetical scenario, which a government official normally does not do before the media, the Acting US Attorney Gary S Shapiro told reporters that for this Headley would have to violate his guilty plea by not co-operating the...
07:39 AM, Jan 25, 2013
The United States has said it will continue to bring to justice the other six people named in Mumbai terror attacks case, including Lashkar-e-Toiba leaders. "They are fugitives. If we can ever get our hands on them, we will try to arrest them, or have them arrested depending on what country they are found in and extradite to the United States and prosecute them here in the US," Acting US...
06:58 AM, Jan 25, 2013
A US federal court here has started the sentencing hearing of David Coleman Headley, an LeT operative convicted of involvement in the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks. The hearing started before the court of US District Judge Harry D Leinenweber in downtown Chicago amidst an unprecedented security. ...
10:34 PM, Jan 24, 2013
Pakistani-Canadian Tahawwur Rana, who was sentenced to 14 years in jail for providing material support to Pakistan-based LeT and for backing a plot to attack a Danish newspaper, would appeal against his conviction, his attorneys said on Friday. "I am sure he is pleased that the judge decided not to include the terrorism enhancement. We would appeal the conviction, certainly and we would discuss this with Mr Rana," Peter Blegan,...
11:53 AM, Jan 18, 2013
Tahawwur Rana, an accomplice of convicted terrorist David Headley, was on Thursday sentenced to 14 years in jail followed by five years of supervised release by a US court for providing material support to Pakistan-based LeT and for backing a plot to strike a Danish newspaper. ...
11:40 PM, Jan 17, 2013
