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FBI granted 2 more months to file Headley indictment

WASHINGTON: Heeding the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s call to grant it some more time to probe a failed Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terror plot in India, a U.S. court has given it another two months to file indictment against David Coleman Headley, a key suspect in the case.

Chief Judge of a Chicago court, James F. Holderman, extended till January 1, 2010, the date of filing indictment for 49-year-old Headley, who was arrested along with Pakistani-origin Canadian citizen Tahawwur Hussain Rana (48) last month by the FBI, which unearthed a major plan by the Pakistan-based LeT to carry out attacks in India and Denmark.

“This court finds that the ends of justice served by extension weigh the best interests of the public and the defendant in a speedy trial, because the failure to grant such an extension would deny the Government the reasonable time necessary for effective preparation of the evidence for presentation to the grand jury, taking into account the exercise of due diligence,” the Judge said in his order. — PTI

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