The accused are wanted in connection with the terror attacks in Mumbai, Delhi and other places during 2005 to 2009.
The National Investigation Agency was today asked by a Delhi court to get the consent of Mumbai and Kerala-based terrors suspects, alleged aides of David Coleman Headley, for their lie-detection tests in connection with plotting the Mumbai 26/11 attack and other strikes in India from 2005 to 2009.
"Since all the accused are from Mumbai and Kerala, let the investigation officer (IO) file on record the willingness of these persons to undergo the polygraph tests before asking them to appear in this court to ascertain their willingness," district and sessions judge SP Garg said.
The NIA, in its plea filed through the superintendent of police Swayam Prakash Pani, provided the court the names of some Indian terror suspects in a sealed envelope and requested their identities be not revealed.
The move to conduct polygraph (lie detection) tests on the accused assumed significance as the NIA has recently secured NBWs against two serving Pakistani Army Majors and three LeT operatives.
The NIA, in its application, said, "The notices may be issued to the persons (mentioned in the sealed cover) so that they may be present before this court in an in-camera proceeding... so that their consent could be sought by the NIA and, if given, duly recorded by the court".
The probe agency, in the FIR lodged on November 11 last year, has made American of Pakistani origin Headley, Tawahoor Rana, Canadian national also of Pakistani origin, who are now in the custody of the FBI, Mumbai terror mastermind Hafiz Sayeed, LeT operations commander Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, two Pakistani officers major Iqbal and major Sameer Ali along with Lashkar operatives Sajid Majid, Syed Abdur Rehman and Illyas Kashmiri as accused.
The accused are wanted in connection with the terror attacks in Mumbai, Delhi and other places during 2005 to 2009.
Initially, the NIA had sought issuance of NBWs against all the nine accused, including Headley and Tawahoor Rana for getting the Red Corner Notices (RCN) issued against them by the Interpol.
However, the plea against Headley and Rana was later withdrawn by NIA on the ground that one of them has been duly interrogated by it and they are in custody of the US with whom India has an extradition treaty.
The court did not issue NBWs against Lakhvi and Sayeed on the ground that a Mumbai court had already issued the warrants in the 26/11 terror attack case and it would be sufficient for issuing RCN against them.
The court, while allowing the plea, had considered Headley's statement, recorded at Illinois in the US by the NIA in which he had categorically disclosed the involvement of these accused in the terrorist activities.
The judge had issued NBWs against major Iqbal and major Sameer Ali along with Lashkar operatives Sajid Majid, Syed Abdur Rehman and Illyas Kashmiri.
Headley was arrested by FBI in Chicago in October last year and has been lodged in a detention centre there.
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