Based on a number of leads the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has gathered during its investigation, including numerous phone conversations between Tahawwur Hussain Rana and his co-conspirator David Coleman Headley, also known as Daood Gilani, a US citizen incarcerated in that nation, the NIA is questioning Rana, the conspirator behind the 26/11 Mumbai attacks.
Following his extradition from the United States, a Delhi court authorised the central investigative agency 18 days of custody, and the 64-year-old Canadian businessman of Pakistani descent was taken to the NIA headquarters early Friday morning. Tahawwur Hussain Rana is being questioned on his alleged connections to the terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), which planned the attacks, and Pakistani spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) officials.
Tahawwur Rana is being questioned by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) Rana regarding his meetings and emails with handlers based in Pakistan and how he managed money to operate a Mumbai-based non-operational immigration office that served as a front for David Headley’s surveillance operations from 2006 to 2009. One of the conspirators in the Mumbai attacks is David Coleman Headley, also known as Daood Gilani. He is incarcerated in the United States and is a citizen of that nation.
The conspiracy that began in 2005 when Lashkar-e-Taiba ordered David Headley to perform reconnaissance in India is covered in the interrogation. Rana will also be questioned about people he met, particularly a supposed important contact in Dubai who is rumoured to know about the preparations to carry out the Mumbai terror attacks.
The NIA officials are hoping to find some important leads on his travels in parts of northern and southern India, days before the attacks in the country’s financial capital on November 26, 2008. “Rana will remain in NIA custody for 18 days, during which time the agency will question him in detail in order to unravel the complete conspiracy behind the deadly 2008 attacks, in which a total of 166 persons were killed and over 238 injured,” said a statement issued by the probe agency soon after the court’s verdict on Friday early morning.
