NIA probes Dawood link in 26/11 plot through Tahawwur Rana interrogation | India News

Dawood Ibrahim and Tahawwur Rana (File photograph)

NEW DELHI: The National Investigation Agency (NIA), in its ongoing probe into Tahawwur Rana’s involvement in the 26/11 terror assaults in Mumbai, is specializing in the community of people that helped plan the conspiracy.
Rana was questioned for the second day in a row as investigators attempt to perceive how the large-scale assault was deliberate and who all have been concerned. NIA can be directing its effort to look at the attainable hyperlinks of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim.
As sources knowledgeable PTI information company, the NIA is dissecting dozens of telephone calls between Rana and Headley, utilizing them to piece collectively the bigger conspiracy that spanned continents. Investigators imagine these conversations maintain very important clues to the operational particulars of the assaults, and to those that labored behind the scenes.
One of the leads contains an individual based mostly in Dubai, believed to have met Rana on Headley’s request. Investigators suppose this man knew in regards to the assault plans. They are additionally checking if this “mystery man” was linked to Dawood Ibrahim or his prison community often called D-Company, which is predicated in Dubai, as sources advised IANS information company.
The company can be trying into Rana’s attainable ties with Pakistan’s spy company ISI and terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), which carried out the assaults. NIA officers imagine the planning for the 26/11 assaults could have began as early as 2005.
To assist their investigation, Rana’s contemporary voice samples have been despatched for testing to match with calls made proper after the assault. Investigators additionally suspect that Rana could have visited a number of elements of India earlier than the assault, presumably to help in planning.
Rana was extradited from the US and dropped at India on Thursday night. A Delhi courtroom gave the NIA 18 days of custody to query him. He is at present being held on the NIA headquarters in Delhi in a high-security cell.
According to the NIA, Rana is being questioned not only for his position in the Mumbai assaults, but additionally to see if he was concerned in planning comparable terror assaults in different Indian cities. He faces a number of critical prices, together with conspiracy, homicide, and serving to terrorists.
The 2008 Mumbai assaults have been among the many deadliest in India’s historical past. Ten terrorists got here to Mumbai by boat and attacked a number of locations together with the Taj Mahal Palace resort, CST railway station, and Nariman House. The assaults lasted three days, killing 166 folks and injuring over 230.
With Rana now in India, the NIA is hoping to get a clearer image of how the complete plot was put collectively and who all have been concerned behind the scenes.