The government on Thursday said documents related to the Lashkar-e-Tayiba [Images] operative David Coleman Headley's visa were yet to be traced while those of his associate Tahawwur Rana [Images] had been found, contradicting claims by Indian Consulate in Chicago that no papers had gone missing. "Rana's visa papers have been found. We are tracing those of Headley," Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor [Images] told mediapersons in New Delhi [Images] when asked to comment on reports about disappearance of documents related to the visas issued by the Indian Consulate in Chicago.
His remarks are in contradiction to the claim by Chicago Consulate that no documents had gone missing and the government of India [Images] was aware of it.
Meanwhile, Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao [Images] refused to comment, merely saying that she had sought a report and the matter was being probed. "I have asked for factual report. The matter is under investigation," Rao told mediapersons in New Delhi.
"There is a procedure. I will not answer any questions in this regard," she added.
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