Tahawwur Rana has been charged with numerous offences, including conspiracy, murder, commission of a terrorist act, and forgery in the country.
New Delhi: Tahawwur Hussain Rana, the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks convict, who was recently extradited to India from the US, is being interrogated for 8 to 10 hours daily by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in a push to uncover the broader conspiracy behind the deadly attacks, PTI reported, quoting top sources.
Rana is a co-conspirator in the 2008 terror assault carried out by the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), which left 166 dead and over 230 injured in India’s financial capital.
He is said to be grilled based on various leads gathered by the probe agency during its investigation, including a large number of phone calls between him and his co-conspirator David Coleman Headley alias Daood Gilani. "Rana has been cooperating during the questioning," the source said.
The investigators also hope to find some important leads on the 64-year-old Pakistani-origin Canadian businessman's travels in parts of northern and southern India days before the carnage in the country's financial capital on November 26, 2008, the sources said.
Rana, who is currently lodged in a high-security cell inside the NIA’s headquarters at Delhi’s CGO Complex, has so far asked for only three things - a pen, paper sheets or notepad and Quran - which have been provided to him, sources told PTI.
Meanwhile, according to a report in The Hindu, Pakistan planned to attribute the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks to “Indian Muslims” Ashok Prasad, former special director of Intelligence Bureau (IB), said.
