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Ishrat Jahan: Female suicide bomber or innocent girl, IB, CBI have different takes

Mumbai/Ahmedabad/New Delhi: Ishrat Jahan, the Mumbai girl, who was shot with three others by a joint team of Gujarat Police and Intelligence Bureau in 2004 has become a riddle of sorts. While the CBI which

India TV News Desk Published : Jul 06, 2013 18:18 IST, Updated : Jul 07, 2013 7:04 IST


The IB, quoting inputs from FBI, has said in the letter that LeT commander Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi had told Headley about a female suicide bomber named Ishrat, appointed by Muzammil. Lakhvi had told Headley that Muzammil planned to target Akshardham temple, Somnath temple and Siddhi temple.



The IB has also mentioned a revelation by an LeT operation Pakistani national Shahid Mahmood Basra. it says, Muzammil had entrusted the task of targeting a VIP to terrorist Babar alias Abdul Adnan. Muzammil had asked Basra to help Babar in this task. Basra had also revealed that Babar was among the four killed in Ahmedabad on June 15, 2004, as shown on TV.

The IB has even gone to the extent of attaching the statement of David Coleman Headley which it had received from National Investigation Agency.  Headlery had told that in the last days of 2005, Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi had introduced Headley to Muzammil, adding that Muzammil's capability was questionable because his module Ishrat Jahan had failed.







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