The FBI has handed over all the crucial evidence, linking the perpetrators of Mumbai terrorists to Pakistan, to a the Mumbai Police.
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has handed over all the crucial evidence, linking the perpetrators of Mumbai terrorists to Pakistan, to a team of Mumbai Police in Washington.
The three-member team headed by deputy inspector general of Deven Bharti handed over a Letters Rogatory issued by a Mumbai court and vetted by the Ministry of External Affairs to the US Department of Justice in Washington.
The FBI took the details of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services used by terrorists of Lashkar-e-Taiba with their masters in the port city of Karachi.
The US investigating agency's help had been sought in sharing the proofs like call details made through VoIP and from the satellite phone besides getting the documents related to Global Positioning System used by the terrorists while sailing from Karachi.
The forensic examination of the bullets used by the terrorists in Mumbai was also a part of the evidence gathered from FBI by Mumbai Police.
The evidence from FBI is expected to make the case water-tight as this kind of proof would further nail Pakistan's claims that the conspiracy behind 26/11 was not hatched in that country alone.
India and the United States share a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT) which came into effect on December three, 2005.
The probe into Mumbai terror attack revealed that the payment for VoIP service was made from Karachi.
With the help of FBI, it was found that the account had been purchased on a fake Identity card in Karachi for which 300 dollars were routed through Western Union money transfer services, the sources said.
The VoIP number brought from Orlando, Florida in the US was being used by the 10 terrorists involved in Mumbai attack to remain in touch with their handlers in Pakistan including Zaki-ur-Rahman Lakhvi, a Lashkar-e-Taiba operative, who is believed to be the mastermind of terror strikes, the sources said.
VoIP is a technology that enables a person to make and receive phone calls through the internet. The voice is converted into packets of data, sent out over the internet through a broadband and reassembled at the other end of the line.
The western investigators were quick in carrying out a background check about the identity papers which were found to be fake, the sources said.
A critical analysis and decoding of data packets led them to two VoIP numbers which were accessed from six Indian mobile phone numbers, they said.
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