Ishrat Jehan was LeT operative: David Headley deposes in Mumbai court on third day
David Headley denied involvement of any woman suicide bomber in LeT on being asked by Ujjwal Nikam. But later he named Ishrat Jahan as LeT operative who was involved in an operation about shooting police at "some naka."
Headley was deposing for the third day before a court in Mumbai.
Soon after Headley's statement BJP
sprung to action and its spokersperson Shahnawaz Hussain said that it supports what many people have been saying in Gujarat for a long time. It should be noted that the "fake encounter" of Ishrat Jehan in 2004, which was ordered by the then Gujarat government, received wide coverage by the media and faced lot of flak from human rights' activists.
sprung to action and its spokersperson Shahnawaz Hussain said that it supports what many people have been saying in Gujarat for a long time. It should be noted that the "fake encounter" of Ishrat Jehan in 2004, which was ordered by the then Gujarat government, received wide coverage by the media and faced lot of flak from human rights' activists.
Deposing from an undisclosed location in the US, Headley had told special judge G A Sanap that ISI was helping different terror outfits in Pakistan and was providing financial, military and moral support.
The deposition of Headley could not happen on Wednesday due to a technical snag in the video conference in the US.
"I opened an office in Mumbai's Tardeo AC market area on 14 September, 2006. On 11th October 2006, I received Rs 66,605 from Dr. Tahawwur Rana when I was in Mumbai. On 7th November 2006, I received $500 from Dr Tahawwur Rana. I received Rs 17,636 on 30 November and $1,000 on 4 December 2006 from Rana. I received all the amount through Nariman branch of IndusInd Bank," Headley told the Mumbai Court while deposing on Thursday.
Tahawwur Rana visited Mumbai before terror attack but I advised him to return back to the US, so that he won't be in any danger. Before my visit to India, I received $25,000 from ISI's Major Iqbal and 40,000 Pakistani rupees from Sajid Mir. I received Rs 2,000 in April 2008 and Rs 1,500 in June 2008 from Major Iqbal who gave me counterfeit Indian currency two to three times.
David Coleman Headley. Agencies
Headley also said that Abdur Rehman Pasha, a retired Pakistani army major, gave him Rs 18,000. "On 1 November 2006 I signed the agreement of my office in Tardeo area of Mumbai, with landlord Bora. The contents I had mentioned in the agreement of my office in Mumbai's Tardeo area, were true," Headley told the court.
"On 16 July 2008,I applied for extension of license (Mumbai office) to stay in premises and extension was granted. An application was submitted to Reserve Bank of India to open a business account in India with signatures of Raymond Sanders but RBI refused to give permission to open a business account."
Headley, who had conducted recce of the places in Mumbai which were attacked by 10 LeT terrorists on November 26, 2008, also revealed that the outfit had initially planned to attack a conference of Indian Indian defence scientists in Taj Mahal Hotel.
He said he had also conducted a recce of the famous Siddhivinayak Temple and Naval air station on directions of LeT commanders.
While spilling beans about involvement of Pakistan's army and intelligence agency in terrorism in India, he said he knew ISI official Brigadier Riyaz being the handler of LeT's top commander Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, who was the mastermind of 26/11 attacks.
Headley, who had visited Mumbai seven times to scout for targets, revealed that plans to target Mumbai had started over a year before 26/11.
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