Alia Bhatt's Half-Brother Rahul Bhatt On Link With 2008 Mumbai Attack Terrorist: 'Dost Tha; No Regrets'

Rahul Bhatt said he wasn't aware of David Headley's true intentions, but would go through the tribulations again as he has learnt from his adversity. Mahesh Bhatt’s son and Alia Bhatt’s half-brother, Rahul Bhatt, was an aspiring actor whose fate took a turn when he unknowingly befriended a terrorist. In 2009, it was alleged that Rahul was friends with David Headley, one of the accused in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.

While Rahul was never an accused in the terror case, he had become a witness due to his friendship with David. In a recent interview with Hindi Rush, Rahul opened up about his “most devastating trauma" and the tribulations he had to go through. Rahul Bhatt said, “I was the one who suffered the most.



.. my identity was butchered.

.. my character was assassinated.

.. for what, for nothing.

I didn’t do anything...

and if I had, I have enough courage to accept my crime and go to the gallows...

I’m a man, I’d have taken it on the chin...

but I didn’t do anything, and still I was made to go through all of it. I remember everything to this day." Rahul revealed that even now, he receives abusive messages on DM.

He said, “It hurts when you’re called a traitor, when you have done nothing...

It hurts...

You start distrusting human beings." He said that while the intelligence authorities treated him fairly, selective media outlets misrepresented the facts. He said, “Everything has been out, I was never the accused, I was a witness.

.. from day one.

.. agar kuch hota hai toh main yahan baitha hota? It was a big case.

.. they would have shut me if anything was true.

" Rahul added that despite not being accused in the case, the “Headley ka dost" tag will follow him all his life. “What can I do? He was a friend. I can say whatever now, but he was my friend.

I didn’t know his real, malicious intents...

No hard feelings. If I had to go through everything again, I’ll go through everything again. I have no regrets.

I got to learn a lot. Adversity has taught me. I don’t get scared anymore.

.. What does one have to fear if one has not done anything?" However, Rahul said that the incident has made him “paranoid" about who he meets and associates with professionally.

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