Terrorist Tahavvur Rana was in Mumbai during the 26/11 terror attack. He has confessed this in the NIA interrogation. According to India Today report, Rana has admitted that he is an agent of the Pakistani Army.
He told that he had done several training sessions of Lashkar-e-Taiba in Pakistan with David Coleman Headley. Rana also said that Lashkar actually acts like a detective network.
The Crime Branch of the Mumbai Police involved in the inquiry is now preparing to arrest Rana and take it on remand. Rana is currently in NIA’s judicial custody, which has been extended by the Delhi court till 9 July.
Tehwavur was arrested by the US agency FBI in October 2009 in Chicago, USA. Rana was brought from America to India by special aircraft on 10 April.
Immigration center opened in Mumbai
Rana said in interrogation that in Mumbai, he opened his company’s immigration center with his own plan, so that space and facilities could be found for the preparation of the attack. The transactions made there were shown in business expenses. He also admitted that Chhatrapati Shivaji had gone to places like Terminus himself.
Relations with ISI and deployment in Saudi Arabia
According to the report, Rana said that the 26/11 attack was carried out with Pakistan’s intelligence agency ISI. He also told that he was sent to Saudi Arabia by the Pak army during the Gulf War.
Rana is a doctor in Pakistani army, Rana is a citizen of Canada
64 -year -old Tehwavur Rana is a Canadian citizen of Pakistani origin. Rana worked as a doctor in the Pakistani army. He then moved to Canada in 1997 and started working as a businessman who gave immigration services there.
He reached America from Canada and opened a consultancy firm called First World Immigration Services on several locations including Chicago. According to US court documents, Rana also visited Canada, Pakistan, Germany and England several times. He can speak about 7 languages.
