New Delhi: A four-member National Investigation Agency (NIA) team is to leave for the US on Sunday to interrogate Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative David Headley, accused of plotting the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack. The Home Ministry has prepared a list of questions for the NIA.
The visit by NIA officials comes ahead of the first ministerial level India-US Strategic Dialogue beginning in Washington DC next week.
Earlier, US Assistant Secretary of State Robert Blake dismissed reports that Headley had become a sticking point between the two countries.
"Let me just say on that that we are very pleased that the United States and India have been able to cooperate very closely on this critical and very complex issue," Blake told reporters on Friday.
He said both countries were cooperating closely on the issue of access but gave no further details.
"The team is expected to stay in the US for 10 to 15 days," NIA Deputy Inspector General Satwant Atwal told IANS.
The team will comprise three officers of the rank of superintendent of police and one special law officer, said Atwal.
The team will interrogate Headley, who is in a Chicago jail, next week.
The team is going to the US following a US Justice Department communication, which also said that all concerned officials and the lawyers of Headley would be available to help them access the Pakistani-American national for interrogation.
(with IANS inputs)
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