Case Registered against Headley, Rana
For investigation of their role in various terrorist attacks in the country including 26/11, a case has been registered against US national and suspected terrorist David Headley and his accomplice Tahawwur Hussain Rana by the National Investigating Agency (NIA).
Talking to reporters, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram said that it is fourth time in 2009 that the NIA registered a case in connection with the 26/11 Mumbai attacks.
“The NIA has been directed to take up investigations,” he said.
The minister maintained that Headley had visited India “several times before 26/11 and once after” the Mumbai terror strikes which left about 180 people dead.
“We are conducting investigations in the cities he visited to find out whom he met and what he did,” Chidambaram said.
The Home Minister sought the allay fears about a possible terror strike and asked media to desist from raising an alarm.
