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NIA did not record my statement in my exact words: David Headley

| | Mar 26, 2016, at 08:39 pm
Mumbai, Mar 26 (IBNS): 26/11 Mumbai attack prime accused David Coleman Headley on Saturday claimed that the National Investigation Agency (NIA) did not record his statements on the 2008 case in his exact words.
During his cross examination on the fourth day before the Mumbai special court through videoconferencing from an undisclosed location in America, he claimed that the NIA recorded his statements in words different from what he had told them. 
 
He also claimed that the NIA never read out to him the recorded statement.
 
"I cannot explain why NIA did not record my statement in my exact words... They never read out the statement to me after recording... I did not ask for the copy and they never gave me a copy," Headley reportedly told the court on Saturday.
 
Headley said that JuD chief Hafiz Saeed told him, "Bal Thackeray needs to be taught a lesson." 
 
Headley also mentioned that he told Saeed, "Give me six months, I will do it."
 
The Pakistani-American terrorist said he did not have first-hand knowledge about Ishart Jahan or the Akshardham temple attack in Gujarat. 
 
Headly told in court on Saturday that Lashkar chief Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhavi made him meet Muzamil Bhat from whom he learnt about the two.
 
The terrorist said that in 2003, Lakhvi had introduced Bhatt as a top LeT commander who had carried out the Akshardham Temple strike.
 
Earlier, Headley had told the court that neither was he tutored, nor was he forced to state Ishrat Jehan as a LeT terrorist by anyone, according to reports.
 
Ishrat Jehan, a 19-year old, was killed by Gujarat top cops in 2004, after they suspected her of being involved terrorist activities. When questioned, the cops said that Ishrat had plans of killing Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the then Gujarat Chief Minister.
 
Headley, a US convict of state, is serving a 35-year old jail term.
 

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