Investigations indicate Headley and Rana were part of a larger conspiracy behind last year's mayhem in the country's financial capital, a top government source said today.
Indian investigators have asked FBI, which arrested Headley and Rana for plotting terror attack in the US and India, for the voice sample of Headley and Rana so that it could be compared with the sample available here.
American terror suspect David Headley, his Canadian associate Tahawwur Hussain Rana and 26/11 Mumbai attack perpetrators had the same handlers in Pakistan, in a fresh pointer to the links between the duo and the incident.
Investigations indicate Headley and Rana were part of a larger conspiracy behind last year's mayhem in the country's financial capital, a top government source said today.
"Evidence is slowly getting established that Headley and Rana were part of the larger conspiracy behind the Mumbai attack. They were in touch with same people who were giving directions to (Azmal Amir) Kasab (the lone surviving terrorist in Mumbai attack) and other terrorists," the source said.
Sources said filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt's son Rahul was not a terror suspect but efforts were on to ascertain if he had unwittingly helped Headley.
There is definite information that Headley and Rana had stayed in Pakistan during last year's Mumbai attack and left that country in the first week of December 2008, the source said.
Following the leads, investigators are questioning a lot of local contacts in all the places which Headley and Rana had visited during their stay in India between 2006 and 2009. "However, there is no prominent person whom he had contacted," he said.
Besides, a large number of people -- more than 100 -- had contacted Rana after he issued advertisements in newspapers offering immigration services.
"We don't know how many had availed of the facility and how many of them had gone abroad. We are verifying all such details," the source said. During their stay in India, Headley and Rana mostly had used international credit cards for their financial dealings besides receiving money from abroad through Western Union Money Transfer.
Asked about the woman who had accompanied Headley in Mumbai and other places, the source said she was not his wife. "But Rana has a wife," he said.
On reports of an official of Pakistan Consulate in Mumbai handing over a satellite telephone to Headley, the source said there was no proof of that. He also dismissed reports of Rahul Bhatt introducing three Bollywood actresses to Headley as mere speculation.
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