A Mumbai court on Wednesday ordered for Pakistan-born American terrorist David Coleman Headley to be made an accused in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks case.
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The sessions court had on November 6 had reserved its order till November 18 on Mumbai Police’s plea seeking to make Headley an accused in the case. Headley will be produced before the court on December 10 via video conferencing. The judicial process in this regard will go through the Ministry of External Affairs. “The boys would carry a Global Positioning System device which would guide them directly to the landing site, I had selected earlier”, he wrote.
The Mumbai court has asked Headley to appear via video conferencing on 10 December. “We had moved to the court on the basis of the judgment passed by the US Court that David Headley being one of the conspirators, should be joined as one of the accused along with Indian citizen Abu Jundal”, Ujjwal Nikam, Special public prosecutor told the media.
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Nikam argued that the American court, which convicted Headley under several charges for playing an active role in 26/11, was not competent to try him for offences under the Indian Penal code, especially on the charge of criminal conspiracy under Section 120B.Headley is charged with conducting reconnaissance of target locations. For this, the Mumbai court also issued summons. As per the chargesheet, after fleeing Maharashtra, Jundal entered Bangladesh in May 2006, where he was received by an Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI) agent. He then used a boarding pass issued in a fictitious name to fly PIA flight to Pakistan. In the case Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab was caught alive and later he was tried in court and was executed.
