Advertisement
This Article is From Nov 26, 2009

Headley visited Nariman House before 26/11

Headley visited Nariman House before 26/11
Mumbai: US terror suspect David Headley had conducted a detailed recee of Nariman House before the Mumbai carnage and even entered the targeted Jewish Centre posing as a Jew, official sources said on Thursday.

The new detail of Headley's movement in this western metropolis prior to the 26/11 attack came on the back of evidence that the US national had also visited and stayed at Taj and Oberoi here--the two luxury hotels which was attacked.

Official sources said statements of some of the witnesses who had either seen or accompanied the 48-year-old Headley to Nariman House, also known as Chabbad House, have been recorded. A Rabbi and his wife were among the six killed there.

The attack by Lashker-e-Toiba(LeT) terrorists last year in the five-storied house, which can be approached only through narrow lanes and by-lanes of Colaba, had left the security agencies without any doubt that a proper recee had been conducted before the strike.

Now after Headley's arrest, things appear to be falling in place with the central security agencies tracing people who had taken him to Nariman House on their motorcycles, the sources said. Headley is currently in FBI custody in the US for allegedly plotting attacks in India.

One of the witnesses, whose statement has been recorded, told the investigators that Headley went inside the house and posed as a Jew and interacted with the inmates for a long time, the sources said.

Track Latest News Live on NDTV.com and get news updates from India and around the world

Follow us:
Listen to the latest songs, only on JioSaavn.com