The Mumbai Police will soon question people who may have come in contact with David Coleman Headley, one of the two alleged Lashkar operatives arrested by the FBI last month. And, while there is little to indicate any possibility of Headley having played a role in the 26/11 attack last year, the Mumbai Police Crime Branch said all angles would be explored.

Headley was arrested for plotting a major terror attack at the behest of the LeT and, according to an FBI affidavit to a court in Illinois, had visited India, including Mumbai, several times.

Teams of investigators on Sunday paid a visit to the AC Market in Tardeo — Headley ran a visa facilitation agency from here for several months — and are also tracking where he lived in Mumbai during his visits. They hope to find, during the coming week, people who may have known or met Headley. Sources in the Mumbai Police said officers would start by drawing up a list of people who may have used the services of Headley’s agency to obtain visas to travel abroad. He ran this agency from the end of 2006 till mid-2008, a period during which he visited Mumbai several times.

At AC Market, where Headley alias Daood Gilani had operated the Immigrant Law Centre, which ostensibly dealt in helping skilled and unskilled people acquire visas for US and Canada, cagey guards confirmed that a police van had spent an hour outside the closed market. A Tardeo police officer said, “We could not make much headway as the whole place was closed. We will return once the week starts.”

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