18 November,2009 07:17 AM IST | | J Dey
Shootout at Lokhandwala girl, Aarti Chhabria, under probe for dangerous liaisons with let operative David Headley plus headley's Osho link, nuclear plants on high alert
Lashkar-e-Taiba mastermind David Coleman Headley (49), whose reputation as a strikingly handsome charmer, almost matches that of his terror history, may have dated starlet Aarti Chhabria.
According to reliable sources at the National Investigative Agency (NIA), which is heading the probe in the Headley- Tahawwur Rana case, it was Mahesh Bhatt's son, Rahul, who introduced Chhabria to Headley at a party.u00a0
The same sources along with Intelligence Bureau sources added that Chhabria and Headley met frequently, hit town together and were also gym buddies.
Chhabria did bit roles in Raja Bhaiiya, Shootout at Lokhandwala, Anamika and Dhoom Dhadakka.
Rahul met Headley at an exclusive gym called spa@moksha at Breach Candy and is being questioned by the NIA and Crime Branch for his alleged links with the American terror suspect and his LeT associate Rana, who are in the custody of the FBI for terror conspiracy.
More to be grilled
Apart from Chhabria, at least five other Bollywood personalities will be questioned as they had also met Headley.
Union Home Secretary G K Pillai at a press conference in Delhi on Monday confirming the probe said the statements of the actors would be recorded in connection with the terror case.
NIA officials say the link between Chhabria and Headley was her friend Khalid, who is being questioned. Khalid allegedly wanted Headley's help to get an US visa in 2007.
However, he denied having met Headley. Said Khalid, "Aarti and I are friends and have been working out together in the gym. But, I have never met any Headley and neither has Aarti."
Sources also said that NIA sleuths have been analysing phone records of several actors, including Emraan Hashmi and Soha Ali Khan, who met Headley on film sets in the past few years and are probing whether the terrorist had managed to infiltrate into Bollywood andu00a0 finance a few projects.
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