Court issues summons to Headley; directs that he be produced via video-conferencing
Court issues summons to Headley; directs that he be produced via video-conferencing
Mumbai
: A special Mumbai court on Wednesday allowed police to make US terrorist David Coleman Headley an accused in the 26/11 case.
Court issued summons to Headley and directed that he be produced via video-conferencing on December 10.
The Mumbai Police had made an application to the court to allow it to write to the US Department of Justice in this matter.
Headley was convicted in the US for his role in 26/11 attacks and is serving his sentence.
US court sentenced Headley to 35 years in prison for helping plan a deadly attack on Mumbai.
Prosecutors say Headley, who was born in the U.S. to a Pakistani father and American mother, was motivated in part by his hatred of India going back to his childhood. He changed his birth name from Daood Gilani in 2006 so he could travel to and from India more easily to do reconnaissance without raising suspicions.
He never pulled a trigger in the attack by the Pakistani-based militant group, Lashkar-e-Taiba, but he videotaped and mapped targets for the gunmen.
The attackers arrived by boat on November 26, 2008, carrying grenades and automatic weapons, and fanned out to hit multiple targets, crowded train station, a Jewish centre and the hotel. The three-day-long terror attack had claimed 166 lives.
