New Delhi: Investigators probing David Coleman Headley, the Pakistan-born US national arrested by the FBI for allegedly plotting terror attacks in India and Denmark, have now cause to believe a Bollywood link may exist.
Sources tell CNN-IBN that Bollywood actor Emraan Hashmi could have been in touch with Headley and that investigators are looking to probe that link.
Sources say investigators have found phone records that link Emraan Hashmi to Headley.
They have added that Mahesh Bhatt's son, Rahul Bhatt introduced Emraan Hashmi to Headley, after which they (Headley and Hashmi) met up twice, including once on the sets of Hashmi's latest film, Tum Mile
Sources also say it was Rahul Bhatt who told investigators that Emraan Hashmi and Headley have been in touch.
Emraan Hashmi is film-maker Mahesh Bhatt's nephew.
Meanwhile, Home Ministry sources now confirming that Rahul Bhatt is not a suspect and that he is being treated as a witness in the case.
Earlier, Home Secretary GK Pillai had said that everyone involved in the case will be treated as a suspect.
Sources have also told CNN-IBN that Rahul Bhatt took Headley to meet two Bollywood actresses, though the sources have refused to name these actresses.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA), which is probing the case, has asked Rahul Bhatt - who came in contact with terror suspect David Headley during the latter's stay in Mumbai - not to leave the city.
"The NIA team has been in Mumbai since Saturday and is gathering details pertaining to the activities of Headley and Tahawwur Hussain Rana. The NIA has recorded the statements of those who were in touch with Headley during his stay in the city," a senior police official told news agency PTI.
"Rahul Bhatt and the other three are fully cooperating with the police and NIA. All of them have been asked not to leave Mumbai for some time," the source told PTI on condition of anonymity.
The NIA has registered a case against Laskhar-e-Toiba operatives Headley and Rana after their arrest by the US investigating agency FBI for allegedly plotting terror attacks in India.
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