Chidambaram shared report at CCS meeting
Union home minister P. Chidambaram is understood to have shared copies of David C. Headley’s interrogation report with the cabinet committee on security, of which Mr S.M. Krishna is a member, besides NSA Shivshankar Menon.
Sources said the Indian high commissioner to Islamabad and a “note taker” from the Indian mission there were present in all but one meeting which the Indian side had had with Pakistan when Mr Chidambaram visited that country in June. “Except the one-on-one meeting between Mr Chidambaram and Pakistan’s interior minister Rehman Malik, in all the other meetings the high commissioner and a ‘note taker’ from the mission were present. So they are privy to all information that the delegation discussed with Pakistan,” a source said.
The sources dismissed the claims that the home secretary had put out the details of Headley’s interrogation in the public domain. Even Mr Krishna had said that Headley’s interrogation has revealed many things and that India cannot be faulted for asking Pakistan to take suitable action based on “such irrefutable evidence”, it was pointed out.
Further, the sources maintained that New Delhi had not violated any understanding reached with the US on the interrogation of Headley.
Reacting to reports that the US was upset with Indian officials going public with what Headley had told Indian investigators, a source said, “There will be no case against Headley using his confession. But we can use his interrogation details against other persons accused in the case.”
Therefore, the comments made by officials here citing Headley’s revelations of the ISI’s involvement in 26/11 did not violate the agreement, the source explained.
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