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India will seek Headley's extradition | Union Home Secretary GK Pillai today said India would seek the extradition of US terror suspect David Coleman Headley, who attended a hearing in a Chicago court on Wednesday. Headley's charge sheet provides his links in Pakistan. The
Indian government has asked Islamabad to investigate Headley's links in Pakistan.
Headley is supposed to have close links with LeT, Huji and Al Qaeeda outfits in
Pakistan. Meanwhile, Headley's case is being heard in Chicago court. The Federal
Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in Chicago arrested him in October on terror charges.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has charge sheeted Headley, alias Daood
Gilani, for conducting "extensive surveillance of targets in Mumbai for more than
two years" preceding the 26/11 terrorist attack in Mumbai in which 166 people
were killed. Pakistani-American jihadist David Headley also hoped to bomb the
offices of Danish newspaper Jyllands Posten, whose publications of cartoons of
Prophet Mohammad in 2005 offended many Muslims across the world. Headley's arrest
compelled the Lashkar to drop its plans to attack the National Defence College.
Headley was using US as a base to plan future attacks outside the country and
because he was a US citizen his travel at least based on entry and exit did not
raise suspicions. According to the US investigating agencies, Headley is cooperating
with the investigators. Headley who made his first appearance in an open US court
on Wednesday pleaded no guilt to the criminal charges against him in connection
with the November 26 Mumbai attacks and the terror plot against Denmark. The next
hearing in this case is scheduled for January 12 and Headley's appearance at that
hearing is likely to be waived. As for India's interest in having Headley extradited,
his lawyer John Theis has said he has not been notified of any such request, and
that in his experience, if a person is convicted, the US would expect him or her
to serve out their sentence here before considering an extradition request by
another country. Till now, the Indian authorities have not been allowed access
to Headley or his accomplice Tawahar Rana. Despite 26/11 Mumbai attacks being
the core of the FBI's chargesheet and an extradition treaty in place between India
and US, the question that crops up is that with Headley co-operating with the
US investigating agencies, will he be sent to stand in a trial court in India. |
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