Hand over Headley for a year, India tells US

India has asked the US to “temporarily” hand over LeT terrorist David Headley for a year and extradite his accomplice Tahawwur Hussain Rana to get more information about the conspiracy behind the Mumbai terror attacks.

In its fresh efforts to get access to the Pakistani American terrorist, India has conveyed to the US interlocutors to “temporarily” hand over Headley for an year after the US expressed its inability to extradite him.

The request was made during the Indo-US Homeland Security Dialogue held in Washington between May 20–22.

“The US interlocutors assured us to actively consider the request,” a top Indian official, who participated in the meeting, said.

Washington also assured New Delhi  of positively considering the request to extradite Headley’s Pakistani-Canadian friend Rana, who helped Headley to recce the 26/11 targets for Lashkar-e-Toiba.