New Delhi:
India is in the process of setting up a team to question David Coleman Headley, the US citizen who has pleaded guilty to helping the Lashkar-e-Toiba plot and execute 26/11. The US Department of Justice has asked India to be ready to send over a team that will have access to Headley.
Headley agreed to a plea bargain that ensures he will not be extradited to India, or face the death penalty.
America has guaranteed India that its intelligence officials can question Headley in connection with 26/11. In the hours after Headley's pea agreement was submitted to a Chicago court on Thursday, India was worried about whether Headley would merely testify in its 26/11 inquiry as opposed to being interrogated.
In a phone call over the weekend, US Attorney General Eric Holder told Chidambaram that India can question Headley.
Home Ministry sources say the government will be ready with its team in a day or two.
In multiple visits between 2006 and2008, Headley visited and surveyed the places that would be targeted later during 26/11. He provided photographs of these places to Pakistani handlers.
He also visited India in April 2009.
India wants to use Headley's testimony to prove the involvement of Pakistani militants like Hafiz Saeed. India has provided Pakistan with dossiers on Saeed and other Pakistani jihadis, but Pakistan has so far maintained that there's no evidence to prove Saeed was involved in the attacks against Mumbai.
Headley agreed to a plea bargain that ensures he will not be extradited to India, or face the death penalty.
America has guaranteed India that its intelligence officials can question Headley in connection with 26/11. In the hours after Headley's pea agreement was submitted to a Chicago court on Thursday, India was worried about whether Headley would merely testify in its 26/11 inquiry as opposed to being interrogated.
In a phone call over the weekend, US Attorney General Eric Holder told Chidambaram that India can question Headley.
Home Ministry sources say the government will be ready with its team in a day or two.
In multiple visits between 2006 and2008, Headley visited and surveyed the places that would be targeted later during 26/11. He provided photographs of these places to Pakistani handlers.
He also visited India in April 2009.
India wants to use Headley's testimony to prove the involvement of Pakistani militants like Hafiz Saeed. India has provided Pakistan with dossiers on Saeed and other Pakistani jihadis, but Pakistan has so far maintained that there's no evidence to prove Saeed was involved in the attacks against Mumbai.
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