New Delhi, November 17: Film-maker Mahesh Bhatt’s son Rahul is not a suspect in the investigation relating to alleged LeT activist David Colemn Headley who has been arrested by the US agency FBI along with an accomplice for conspiring to attack targets in India.
Home Ministry sources have denied that the National Investigation Agency (NIA) is probing Rahul Bhatt as an accused in the case. ‘He is an eyewitness,’ an MHA source told Zee News.
Following media reports on the duo- Headley and Tahawwur Hussain Rana- Rahul had voluntarily approached the city police
with information that he was acquainted with Headley, and how he had wanted to rent a flat in Mumbai.
A realty consultant from Bandra, Sunny Singh had said that he was approached by Headley to hire out a flat in Pali Hill, Bandra.
Home Secretary GK Pillai on Sunday had ruled out any possibility of giving clean chit to any one in the case, including Mahesh Bhatt’s son Rahul. On Monday there were media reports that the gym instructor had been asked by investigating agencies to not leave Mumbai.
However, Mahesh Bhatt categorically denied such reports.
“Who has said this? I spoke to Joint Police Commissioner (Crime) Rakesh Maria and he said that there is no such thing as is being made out in a section of the media since yesterday,” an enraged Bhatt told news agencies.
He accused certain media persons of spreading “utter falsehoods, fiction, fantasy and sheer nonsense” in the name of investigative reporting.
Bhatt said when his son was fully cooperating with the investigators, where was the question of anybody attempting to curb his fundamental rights, especially when he could be a probable witness in the case?
“But here I am, spending the whole day answering to the same queries by mediapersons from all over the country,” said Bhatt.
–Agencies