Rana trial, ISI, Headly Pune bakery bombing connection

http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/isi-handler-major-iqbal-is-chaudhery-khan-headley-108188


Pune Mirror :
Handwriting analysis experts have concluded that arrested terror suspect David Coleman Headley had indeed visited Pune before the German Bakery bomb blast. The handwriting analysis claimed that Headley’s signatures matched with various documents where he had signed.Headley has been arrested by US intelligence agencies and a trial at a court in Chicago is underway.

Headley had visited Pune in March 2009 and had stayed in Hotel Surya Villa in Koregaon Park. He had booked room number 202 on March 19. He wrote his name and signed on the hotel register and at the same time had submitted photocopies of his passport which bore his signature.

The Anti Terrorism Squad (ATS) team had seized the hotel register and the photocopies of Headley’s passport. Both documents were then sent to the state Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to have the handwriting analysed.

The CID has a separate wing of for handwriting analysis. A special team of handwriting experts were deputed to analysis Headley’s documents.

The team worked on the documents for over three months, and submitted a detailed report to the ATS. A senior CID officer confirmed that a ‘positive report of the handwriting analysis’ was sent to the ATS. This means that the handwriting sample obtained from the Headley’s passport matched with the signature and handwriting of the hotel register.

However, ATS officials refused to comment on the issue. The state CID’s handwriting wing has specialised equipment and staff to study the hand writing of the suspects involved in fraud and other serious offences.

It studies the slant (graphology), pressure applied on the paper and other technical aspects. The process is repeated atleast thrice to confirm or match the handwriting samples. A set of three different staff members analyse the documents to match the handwriting and only after these tests are done, it is declared ‘positive’ or ‘negative’ i e matching or not.

Headley, a suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba operative, is a US national. After checking into the hotel, he visited the Osho International Meditation Resort in Koregaon Park on same day. He checked out the next day at 8.15 pm after paying a bill of Rs 1,240. It is suspected that he had visited many places in Koregaon Park.

It was also suspected that Headley had visited Pune earlier in 2008 and 2009 on a Business Visa. After Headley’s survey of the area, a bomb ripped through the German Bakery on February 13, 2010, in which 17 persons were killed and several others were left injured.