NIA team heads to US to grill Headley

A four-member National Investigation Agency team will fly to US on Sunday with the decks being finally cleared for unqualified access to 26/11 accused David Coleman Headley so that the Mumbai plotter can be interrogated thoroughly about his knowledge of terror links targeting India. Headley, who has pleaded guilty on 12 counts, nine of which related to the terror attack on Mumbai so as to avoid being extradited to India and escape capital punishment, will also be questioned on certain missing parts of the 26/11 conspiracy as also the Pune blast. Interrogating Headley on what he knows of the pan-Indian terror agenda that was envisaged by the “Karachi project” will be a team headed by IG rank official Loknath Behera and two other superintendents of police. Accompanying them is special public prosecutor Dayan Krishnan to sort out any legal road blocks.During the eight-day stay in US, the team will focus basically on finding out details of Headley’s undercover trips to several places in India and links with sleeper terror cells.