mumbai in a significant claim pakistaniamerican terrorist david coleman headley on thursday said that ishrat jahan who was killed in an alleged fake encounter in 2004 in gujarat was actually a suicide bomber of terror outfit lashkaretaiba the disclosure is likely to ignite a fresh row around the controversial encounter testifying via video link from the us headley spilled the beans on the 19yearold mumbra girl and picked up her name when quizzed by special public prosecutor ujjwal nikam about a botched up operation mentioned to him headley by let commander zakiur rehman lakhvi headley told the court that lakhvi had mentioned to him about a botchedup operation conducted in india by another let operative muzammil butt where a female member of the terror outfit was killed prodded by nikam to elaborate on the operation and the members involved in it headley said i was told it was a shootout with police in which a female suicide bomber was killed to which the prosecutor prompted three names of which headley picked up jahan before telling the court that there is a female wing in let and one abu aimans mother headed it four persons ishrat jahan javed shaikh alias pranesh pillai amjadali akbarali rana and zeeshan johar were killed in an encounter with gujarat police on the outskirts of ahmedabad on june 15 2004 the city crime branch had then said that those killed in the encounters were let terrorists and had landed in gujarat to kill then chief minister narendra modiread alsoishrat jahan encounter case all you want to know the cbi which took over probe from the gujarat high court appointed special investigation team sit had filed chargesheet in august 2013 saying that the encounter was fake and executed in the joint operation by the city crime branch and subsidiary intelligence bureau sib in further disclosures the 55yearold who recently turned approver in the 2611 case also told the court that that let operative muzammil butt was the head of his headleys group before sajid mir he told the court that a person whom he identified as abu dujuna introduced him to muzammil headley said that he and muzammil had once visited kashmir to fight against the indian troops earlier in the day headley exposed how isi and let majorly funded terror operations in india and financed him from time to time and that pakistan native tahawwur rana visited mumbai before the terror strikes in november 2008 which left 166 people dead and 309 injured read alsokey revelations by david headley the let operative also said that rbi had turned down his request to open a bank account for their office in india giving details of his funding headley said before coming to india in september 2006 he received 25000 from isis major iqbal i also got 40000 in pakistani currency from let operative sajid mir between april and june 2008 he told the court adding that major iqbal used to regularly send him money