The Shiv Sena said foreigners would be barred from entering the party headquarters – the Sena Bhavan at Dadar in Central Mumbai – on security grounds.
“The informal directive came after Pakistani-American Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorist David Coleman Headley’s confession that he recced several targets, including the Sena Bhavan,” a senior Shiv Sena leader told Business Standard.
He said many students and visitors from other countries visit the Sena Bhavan to study the party and the way it functions.
According to him, Headley could have been one among those who had visited the headquarters pretending to be a student and recced the office.
Headley had also told interrogators of the National Investigation Agency that he filmed the outer boundary of the prime minister’s residence at 7, Race Course Road duing his trip to the capital in March 2009.
