New Delhi: Home Minister P Chidambaram today
said investigators were probing if suspected terrorist David
Headley had any links with Mumbai attacks as he had visited
the country several times before they took place.
"He visited India several times before 26/11 and
therefore there is something we have to necessarily look into
but as of now I cannot say whether there was a link or not,"
he told reporters on the sidelines of the India Economic
Summit here.
Chidambaram sought to downplay the inability of Indian
investigators to access Headley.
"The intelligence team did not go there with your agenda.
The intelligence team was there with an agenda which we have
set for it," he said.
Meanwhile, officials in the Home Ministry said the US
investigators had sent a report on Headley`s interrogation to
their Indian counterparts.
A team of Indian intelligence officials, who had gone to
the US to interrogate Headley, had to return without even
meeting him because of "bureaucratic" and "procedural"
hurdles.
Central security agencies have
also located the mobile phone number used by Headley.
The clue to the mobile phone used by Headley was given
by a 38-year-old Parsi lady who was working with him at his
immigration services office set up in Mumbai, official
sources said.
The security agencies have already started analysising
the call records of Headley who has been arrested by FBI on
October three for allegedly hatching a conspiracy with
Pakistan-based terror group Lashker-e-Taiba to carry out
strikes inside and outside the US.
Headley (49) was arrested last month at Chicago`s
O`Hare International Airport as he prepared to board a flight
to Philadelphia, intending to travel to Pakistan. Subsequently
FBI also arrested Rana, 48, a Canadian citizen of Pakistani
origin.
Bureau Report
