NIA to interrogate LeT suspect in probe against Headley

A Delhi court today allowed the National Investigating Agency to interrogate a suspected LeT militant as part of its probe against Pakistani-American David Coleman Headley charged with conspiring in Mumbai terror strikes.

Chief metropolitan magistrate Kaveri Baweja allowed an application by the NIA seeking permission to examine Mohd Aslam who was arrested by the Delhi Police's Special Cell from the national capital in August last year.
    
Aslam, 27, a suspected terrorist who hailed from Jammu and Kashmir, was apprehended on August 25 from New Delhi Railway Station while allegedly carrying detonators and chemicals, besides a Pakistani passport bearing the name Yusuf.

The NIA sleuths had earlier also been allowed by the court to interrogate Aslam on March two.
    
In the fresh plea, they submitted that they wanted to quiz him before an independent witness.
     
Aslam, who had already been chargesheeted by the Delhi police under various provisions of the IPC, the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and the Explosive Substances Act, is at present lodged at Tihar jail here.
     
The NIA has registered a case against Headley and his Pakistani-Canadian accomplice Tahawwur Hussain Rana in November last year to probe their role in various terror strikes in the country, including the 26/11 Mumbai attack.

Headley, suspected to be in touch with the LeT men who planned and carried out the 26/11 attack in Mumbai in 2008, was arrested by the FBI on October 18, 2009 in Chicago.