German Bakery Blast: Hotel where Headley stayed in 2009 now has 19 CCTV cameras

It was The Indian Express that discovered this in March 2010. The hotel register that recorded details of all the guests had his name. Two documents gave proof of the visit — the C-form spiral, mandatory for every foreigner checking into a hotel, which included a carbon copy of the form filled by Headley, and the main register. The then manager Srinivasan had told Express then that as per rules, the original C-form along with a copy of Headley’s passport page that had his photograph had been sent to the police commissionerate.

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According to the C-form, Headley checked into Surya Villa at 6.15 am March 16, and had a multiple entry B-visa (No: 314473) for India issued to him in Chicago on July 18, 2007 with validity up to July 17, 2012. Headley had written “180 days” in response to a query on duration of his stay in India, listing the purpose as “tourist”. In the space for date and place of arrival in India, something had been written and scratched out. The C-form gave Headley’s US passport number as 097536400; date of issue 10-03-06, valid up to 09-03-16. The main register has corroborating entries though the purpose of the visit has been stated as “business”. According to the register, Headley checked in on March 16, stayed in Room No. 202 and checked out at 8 am, March 17. He had stayed in a single occupancy non-AC room with a tariff of Rs 1,200. His total bill at the time of checking out was Rs 1,240.

“Following this information that even we were unaware of we were swamped by media and police and co-operated with both. Later, we decided to install 19 CCTVs as a security measure,” said Bumb adding that about 30 per cent of the guests are foreigners. He said that two years ago, they alerted police about a Nigerian who checked in and seemed to have a false passport and documents and he was immediately arrested by police.