NEW DELHI/WASHINGTON:  A four-member National Investigation Agency team is to leave for the US on Sunday to interrogate Lashkar-e-Taiba operative David Headley, accused of plotting the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack.

“The team is expected to stay in the US for 10 to 15 days,” the NIA deputy inspector-general, Mr Satwant Atwal told IANS.
The team will comprise three officers of the rank of superintendent of police and one special law officer, said Mr Atwal.
The team will interrogate Headley, who is in a Chicago jail, next week.
The team is going to the US following a US justice department communication, which also said that all concerned officials and the lawyers of Headley would be available to help them access the Pakistani-American national for interrogation.
Without committing whether New Delhi would get such access, a US official said the US is cooperating with India “very closely on this critical and very complex issue”.
“Let me just say on that that we are very pleased that the United States and India have been able to cooperate very closely on this critical and very complex issue,” the assistant secretary of state, Mr Robert O. Blake told reporters on Friday when asked about “one of the sticking points of India-US relations”.
“And we continue to work very hard with our Indian counterparts to move forward on that.  But I don’t have anything more to say.  I’d just refer you to the department of justice for further comment,” he said.
Asked if he couldn’t say in so many whether US was going to give access to India, Mr Blake said: “I’m not in a position to.”
“I don’t think it’s a sticking point.  I think that we’ve got - again, we’ve got a good dialogue and I think we’ll work out a way forward,” he added when asked if this was a sticking point ahead of the inaugural US-India strategic dialogue here next week.
However, an Indian diplomat insisted that India would get access to Headley soon as promised by the President, Mr Barack Obama during his meeting with the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh here last month.