Chicago: The detention hearing of terror suspect David Coleman Headley, which was scheduled for December 4 at a court in Chicago, has been indefinitely deferred.
Headley was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for allegedly plotting the Mumbai terror attacks at the behest of Lashkar-e-Toiba.
“The detention and preliminary hearing for David Coleman Headley that was scheduled for Friday in US District Court in Chicago is cancelled and will not be held (as scheduled). There is no new date and no further information available at this time,” US Attorney’s Office, Northern District of Illinois, announced in Chicago on Monday.
Headley’s hearing was scheduled before US Magistrate Judge Arlander Keys. His lawyer John Theis was not available immediately for comment.
The Attorney's office further said the detention hearing for Tahawwur Hussain Rana, also in custody on similar terror charges, would proceed as per schedule on December 2 before Magistrate Judge Nan Nolan.
Both Headley and Rana were arrested by the FBI in October on charged that they were plotting attacks in Denmark and India. They are also under investigation for possible links to the terror strikes in Mumbai on November 26, 2008 which killed around 166 people.
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