The United States has provided the National Investigation Agency (NIA) with the details and specifications of a mobile phone handset belonging to Lashkar-e-Taiba operative David Coleman Headley, which was used by him to videograph key targets a few months before the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks. The same phone was used to film key targets when Headley again visited India in March 2009, barely three months after the attacks. The details would help the NIA build its case against Headley and others in the Mumbai attacks case. Even after a Mumbai court accepted Headley’s plea to become an approver in the case being investigated by the Mumbai Police, he remains an accused in the NIA’s case. The handset was in the custody of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). It was seized when Headley was arrested at the Chicago airport in November 2009. The U.S authorities have shared with the NIA the International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI), the International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) and the network code of the phone.
S. Abhishek Ramaswamy
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