David Headley names Ishrat Jahan as LeT operative during deposition in court

In a major revelation, David Coleman Headley on Thursday referred to Mumbra (a town near Mumbai) girl Ishrat Jehan as a suicide bomber of terror group Lashkar-e-Toiba. Ishrat, Javed Sheikh alias Pranesh Pillai and two Pakistani nationals Amjad Ali Rana and Zeeshan Jowher were gunned down at Kotarpur in Ahmedabad on June 15, 2004.

During his deposition, he refered to a woman killed in a police encounter on Indian soil. When he was given three names, he claimed that the name of the woman was Ishrat Jahan. Ishrat's family, since the encounter took place in 2004, has been alleging that it was a botched up operation by the Gujarat Police.

He also exposed how ISI and LeT majorly funded terror operations in India and financed him from time to time.

"Before coming to India in September 2006, he received $25,000 from ISI's Major Iqbal. I also got 40,000 in Pakistani currency from LeT operative Sajid Mir between April and June 2008. Major Iqbal gave me counterfeit Indian currency once or twice in 2008," he told the court, adding that Major Iqbal used to regularly sent him money in instalments.

"Tahawur Rana (Headley's associate and a Pakistani native who operated a Chicago-based immigration business) used to send me money from the US in September 2006 when I came to India to do intelligence work on instructions of LeT," he said.