Tahawwur Rana, extradited from the US, is being interrogated daily by the NIA for up to ten hours over the 26/11 attacks, with officials probing a larger conspiracy and ensuring legal and medical access.
Tahawwur Rana, the key mastermind behind the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, is currently undergoing intense interrogation by the National Investigation Agency (NIA), according to sources cited by news agency PTI. He is reportedly being questioned for up to ten hours each day. Rana arrived in New Delhi on Thursday after being extradited from the United States.
The NIA aims to unravel a larger conspiracy behind the deaded strikes, which killed 166 people and injured over 230.
The NIA officials are ensuring Rana’s medical check-up and he is being allowed t meet his lawyer, according to the order of a Delhi court that had on early Friday morning granted 18-day custody to the probe agency following his extradition from the US.
Rana is currently held in a high-security cell at the NIA headquarters in Delhi CGO Complex. PTI sources said that he has been cooperating with investigators led by Chief Investigating Officer Jaya Roy. Rana has requested a pen, some paper on notepad, and a Quran.
According to PTI sources, there has not been any specific food-related demand raised by Rana so far and he is being provided with “food items which are given to any other accused” according to the standard protocols meant to deal with such subjects.
“Rana has been cooperating during the questioning,” a source said, adding that a team of NIA officials led by Chief Investigating Officer Jaya Roy is interrogating him.
Rana is being grilled on the basis of various leads gathered by the probe agency during the course of its investigation, including a large number of phone calls between him and his co-conspirator David Coleman Headley alias Daood Gilani.
NIA, earlier on Sunday, dissected dozens of phone calls between Rana and his childhood friend and Pakistani-American terrorist David Coleman Headley, using them to piece together the larger conspiracy that spanned continents.