Mahesh Bhatt's son friend of Lashkar terrorist Daoud Gilani aka Headley

November 13th, 2009

ANI

Rahul Bhatt, the son of filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt has been linked to Lashkar operative David Coleman Headley{aka Daoud Gilani}, who has been arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for plotting a major terror attack in India.

However after investigations, Rahul was given a clean chit by the investigating agencies.

"He has admitted to being friends with Headley. But, in all probability, he didn't know Headley's actual background and took him to be a foreign national in India on a job. That was exactly the guise Headley had been living under in India between 2006 and 2009," said an investigating officer.

It has also come to the fore that Rahul had helped Headley to find a flat near the Breach Candy hospital. The two had met at a gymnasium.

Intelligence agencies had earlier thought that Rahul could be a code word for Shahrukh Khan who had played several characters by the same name in his films.

"This is an issue of national security and not something trivial related to Bollywood. Ask agencies that deal with national security. I will not say anything more," said Mahesh Bhatt neither confirming nor denying that his son had close links with Headley.

Another one.

The mysterious name, Rahul, mentioned extensively in LeT operative David Coleman Headley’s e-mails to handlers in Pakistan has finally been identified. It’s neither Shah Rukh Khan nor Rahul Gandhi, but the son of famous filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt. And nor is Rahul Bhatt, 25, a fitness instructor and a body builder, on the LeT hit list; he is in fact a friend of Headley who was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Chicago last month. {our dipshit media and journos are the one who deliberately concocted this 'Rahul is a target' BS because if one reads the Gilani chat, Rahul is mentioned not as a target but as an acquaintance - "Say Hi to Rahul"}

However, sources said that Rahul Bhatt has not been given a clean chit yet and no one is given the same till the investigations are complete. Sources also added that the Indian government is in touch with their Abu Dhabi counterpart and the Indian investigators are likely to visit the place soon.

An officer privy to the investigations said, “He has admitted to being friends with Headley. But, in all probability, he didn’t know Headley’s actual background and took him to be a foreign national in India on a job. That was exactly the guise Headley had been living under in India between 2006 and 2009.”

It has also come to light that it was Rahul who helped Headley rent a flat near Breach Candy hospital.

The two met at a gym where Rahul who at one point weighed 122 kilos, had come to lose weight and get fit.

Rahul Bhatt at that time was supposed to be launched in a film, Suicide Bomber, under his family banner Vishesh Films, based on the London bombings which was eventually scrapped. {Method acting, anyone???}

Headley, a US citizen of Pakistani origin who had been arrested by US’s Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) on October 18 with a Canadian citizen of Pakistani origin Tahawwur Rana, at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, had told FBI interrogators that Rahul was a prominent Indian actor. Headley had been arrested on the information that he was planning terror attacks in Denmark and India.

The two men became friends and when Headley expressed that he was looking to rent a flat, Rahul even helped him get one near Breach Candy through a property broker. All this while, say investigators, Rahul was not aware that Headley had LeT links.

During his stay in Mumbai, Headley was ostensibly functioning as a consultant for an immigration firm in Tardeo. That was, possibly, the only identity that Rahul knew of Headley. Earlier, there were theories among intelligence agencies that Rahul could be a code word either for Shah Rukh Khan, who has played several character by that name, or even a place that could have been a terror target.

When contacted, Rahul’s father Mahesh Bhatt neither confirmed nor denied that his son had been questioned by the police in connection with the Headley case. He simply said, “This is an issue of national security and not something trivial related to Bollywood. Ask agencies that deal with national security. I will not say anything more.”

All efforts to reach Rahul failed as his phone was switched off. Text messages sent to him did not elicit any reply till the time of going to press.

Investigators also suspect that Headley may be holding dual passports of US and Pakistan (as Pakistan allows it) and thus escaped the scrutiny of immigration officials as he may have travelled to Pakistan using his Pak passport while to India using his US passport.

In a few e-mail conversations with an LeT operative, Headley has mentioned Rahul several times. The FBI affidavit notes: In an e-mail on July 2009, Headley told Lashkar-e-Taiba Member A that “I think when we get a chance we should revisit our last location again and say hi to Rahul.”

A reply from LeT Member A on the same day read: “To see Rahul is a good idea coz have some work for you over there too. Matters are good enough to move forward...”

On July 9, Headley writes again: “When you say ‘move forward’, do you mean in the north direction or towards Rahul...” To this Member A replies: “Towards Rahul.”

On July 10, Headley writes another mail to Member A: “The visit to Rahul’s place, is it for checking real estate property like before, or something different and if so please tell what you can please. Also is it in Rahul’s city or different one?” To this Member A replied: “There are some investment plans with me, not exactly at Rahul’s city but near that. Rest we can decide when meet according to your ease.”

Two glaring questions, speed with which police has declared Rahul Bhatt innocent inspite of ongoing investigations and Mahesh Bhatt's silence since he has an extensive opinion on everything that crawls on planet Earth....lagta saanp soong gaya unkal ji ko. Jihadist aatankwadiyon ka saath doge toh yehi hoga bhootni ke Butt LMAO! It is truly a joy to see this itching pompous buffoon make such fool of himself on the permanent public record with "This is an issue of national security and not something trivial related to Bollywood". When has national security mattered to you, Bhootni ke Butt and also, you had an opinion for everything under the sun but now that your son is involved(not national security blah blah), unkal ji ki g**nd fat gayi aur gote ban gaye tonsils. Hahahahaha.....G**ndfattu Butt ROFLMAO!