New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Saturday filed a chargesheet against Lashkar-e-Toiba operative David Coleman Headley and eight others including two ISI officials, in the November 26, 2008 Mumbai terror attack case. The chargesheet has been filed in a special NIA court in Delhi.
The Patiala House court is likely to pronounce its order on whether to accept the chargesheet (cognizance) on January 7, 2012.
The Government on Wednesday gave sanction to the NIA to file chargesheet against the nine persons.
Headley entered into plea bargain with the United States without taking India into confidence. Headley did a recce of the 26/11 targets for the Lashkar-e-Toiba, which carried out the attack on November 26, 2008.
A metropolitan magistrate's court in Mumbai has already issued letters rogatory to a US court in October 2011, requesting it to enable Mumbai police to question Headley and his accomplice Tahawwur Hussain Rana in the 26/11 terror attacks case.
Rana was convicted for helping Lashkar-e-Toiba in a plot to attack a Danish newspaper. However, he was acquitted of federal charges that he aided the terrorists who carried out the attacks in Mumbai after an eight-day trial in Chicago.
At least 166 people were killed with many of them being foreign nationals in the attack on India's financial capital.
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