India says 35 years jail not enough for Mumbai plotter
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In this courtroom sketch, Linda Ragsdale (centre), a Tennessee children's author who was shot during the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, reads an impact statement during the sentencing hearing of David Coleman Headley (left), 52, before US District Judge Harry Leinenweber at federal court in Chicago on Thursday, Jan 24, 2013. India's foreign minister said today that the US planner of the deadly 2008 Mumbai attacks should have got a harsher sentence than 35 years in prison and added that New Delhi still wanted his extradition. -- PHOTO: AP
NEW DELHI (AFP) - India's foreign minister said today that the US planner of the deadly 2008 Mumbai attacks should have got a harsher sentence than 35 years in prison and added that New Delhi still wanted his extradition.
David Headley, 52, who admitted to scouting targets for the Mumbai attacks in which 166 people died, cooperated with US authorities to avoid the death penalty during his sentencing in Chicago on Thursday.
"If we would have tried him, we would have sought much more punishment. But the judge is bound by the structured system of justice delivery in the US," Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid told India's CNN-IBN TV network.
"It's a beginning," Khurshid told other reporters in New Delhi.
