Headley misrepresented facts while applying for India visa

TERROR-VISA

Washington, Dec 8 (PTI) Pakistani-origin American
national David Coleman Headley, charged with criminal
conspiracy in the Mumbai terror attacks, had misrepresented
facts while applying for an Indian visa, the Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI) has charged.

"In applying for his visa to travel to India, Headley
misrepresented his birth name, father's true name and the
purpose for his travel," the FBI said in its 12-count charge
sheet filed against him in a Chicago court.
For applying for a visa to travel to India, he took the
help of his school-time friend Tahawwur Hussain Rana, who ran
an immigration service in Chicago, named the First World
Immigration Services.
Rana, a 48-year-old Canadian of Pakistani-origin, too has
been arrested by the FBI on terror charges.
Headley, 49, obtained Rana's approval to open a First
World office in Mumbai as cover for this activity.
The FBI charge sheet alleges that Rana instructed one of
his employees to prepare documents to support Headley's cover
story and advised him on how to obtain a visa for travel to
India.
According to the charge sheet, Headley approached Rana
for help after being tasked by Pakistan-based terror outfit
Lashkar-e-Taiba in late 2005 with gathering surveillance in
Mumbai.
After changing his name from Dawood Gilani to David
Coleman Headley to conceal his Muslim identity during his
planned visit to India, he travelled to Chicago where he
obtained a visa.
India's National Investigation Agency (NIA) had
registered a case on November 11 against 49-year-old
Pakistan-born US citizen David Headley and his Canadian
accomplice Tahawwur Hussain Rana, after their arrest in
Chicago last month by the FBI for allegedly plotting terror
attacks in India. PTI LKJ
ANU


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