While Tahawwur Rana, one of the key conspiracy masterminds of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, is in India's net now, there seems to be a tussle underway to claim the credit behind the historic extradition.
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00:00The man behind 2611 plot in Indian custody
00:04A step closer to 2611 justice
00:13NIA conference Rana with damning evidence
00:2018-day NIA custody for Tahabul Rana
00:24Explosive revelations from US agencies
00:30Intercepted conversation with Headley out
00:36Park terror conspiracy unravels
00:43Top focus at Five Live
00:55So the proceedings in the NIA special court
00:58They carried on till late last night
01:00Around 2 this morning
01:02The NIA which sought 20 days custody
01:05Was finally granted 18 days custody
01:07Of this Pakistani-Canadian terrorist
01:11Tahabul Rana
01:11And the NIA early this morning
01:14Actually began the questioning
01:16He's a key accused
01:18He's a key plotter
01:19Of the 2611 Mumbai terror attacks
01:21In which 166 people
01:23From over a dozen countries
01:25Lost their lives
01:27Now Tahabul Rana was extradited
01:29From the United States just yesterday
01:30He knows a lot of details
01:33There are key gaps in the investigations
01:36Not just about the enemy across the border
01:39But also about the enemy within
01:42And future terror attacks
01:44That Lashkar-e-Taiba had planned
01:45As part of Pakistan's so-called
01:48Gazwai Hind
01:49It's one of their fantasies
01:51That they want to spread Islam
01:53Across India
01:54And by force
01:55By sword
01:56They want to kill Indians
01:58We'll also get you details
01:59Of the conversation
02:00That Tahabul Rana had
02:01With David Coleman Headley
02:03About bleeding India
02:04Through a thousand cuts
02:05Of words to that effect
02:06And celebrating the 2611
02:08Mumbai terror attacks
02:09But first
02:10We get you this report
02:11NIA begins interrogation
02:15Of 2611 Mumbai attacks
02:17Conspirator
02:18Tahabul Rana
02:19The terror accused
02:20Was remounded to
02:2118-day NIA custody
02:23After a late-night court hearing
02:25In Delhi
02:25That followed his extradition
02:26From America
02:27The court has directed
02:29That any medical requirements
02:31On his behalf
02:32Would be taken care of
02:33And comprehensive medical tests
02:35Would be done
02:36When he's taken into custody
02:37And before he's brought back
02:40Into court
02:40Tahabul Rana
02:42Is being questioned
02:43At the NIA headquarters
02:44In Delhi
02:44By a team led
02:45By the NIA DG
02:47Sources tell India today
02:49That Rana was confronted
02:50With a series of questions
02:51Prepared by the agency
02:53Two cameras are installed
02:56In Rana's interrogation cell
02:58And his questioning
02:59Will be recorded
03:00Rana has been kept
03:01In a lock-up
03:02On the ground floor
03:03Of the NIA HQ
03:04His interrogation cell
03:05Is located just above
03:07The lock-up
03:07The terror accused
03:09Is being served
03:10Food in the same lock-up
03:12And only a team of 12 officers
03:13Have access to Rana
03:15As per sources
03:16Three sets of questionnaires
03:19Have been prepared by NIA
03:20Tahabul Rana
03:22Is being questioned
03:23On his location
03:23On the days of the terror attack
03:25And why he was there
03:27Rana's also to be questioned
03:29On people he met
03:30During his stay in India
03:31And why he sent
03:32Headley to India
03:33On a fake visa
03:33As per sources
03:35The priority is to find out
03:37Who was Rana's handler
03:38In Pakistan
03:39Who was funding him
03:40Who are the sleeper cells
03:43Who are his business partners
03:46Information that we are getting
03:49Is India Today
03:49Gets you that letter
03:51Dated August 14, 2023
03:53In which the Pakistani
03:55Embassy in Washington, D.C.
03:56United States of America
03:57Wrote to its consulate
03:59In Los Angeles
04:00It's written
04:01Rana's team's plea
04:03Against the extradition
04:04To India
04:05Stands rejected
04:05And the consulate
04:06Should now help
04:08Keep an eye
04:08On Rana's next appeal
04:10And further updates
04:11And keep the Pakistani
04:12Embassy in Washington
04:13In the loop
04:14The question we are asking is
04:16When Pakistan
04:17Has been denying
04:19For two decades
04:20They have been saying
04:21That for two decades
04:22Rana had nothing to do
04:24With Pakistan
04:25And that he was
04:25A Canadian national
04:26Why was the Pakistan
04:28Embassy in Washington, D.C.
04:29Instructing the consulate
04:30In Los Angeles
04:31To keep an eye
04:32On all developments
04:33We have accessed that letter
04:34When Pakistan was
04:37Desperate to ensure
04:38That Tahovar Hussain Rana
04:39Does not get extradited
04:40To India
04:41Before I get you
04:42More on the story
04:42Listen in
04:43To the white lies
04:44Of a state sponsor
04:46Of radical Islamist terror
04:47Called Pakistan
04:48It's called Pakistan
04:49Perhaps
04:50It should be called
04:51Jhootistan
04:51Listen in to the
04:52Foreign Office spokesperson
04:53The Tahovar Hussain Rana issue
04:55We have conveyed
04:56Our position
04:57Regarding his
04:57Canadian nationality
04:59And as far as
05:01Our record indicates
05:04He did not even
05:05Apply for renewal
05:06Of his
05:06Pakistani origin
05:08Documents
05:08For the last two decades
05:09I reiterate position
05:11I reiterate position
05:11We will give further updates
05:13In due course
05:13So I want you to
05:17Read this letter
05:18And a little carefully
05:19And India today
05:21Is accessed this letter
05:22I want you to read this
05:23And see this
05:24What it says
05:25This is a letter
05:26That's dated
05:2714th of August
05:282023
05:29So if Pakistan
05:30Was claiming
05:30It has nothing to do
05:31With Tahovar Hussain Rana
05:32For 20 years
05:33Why were they writing
05:34Letters
05:34Just a year and a half ago
05:36In August 2023
05:37Point one
05:38Point two
05:39This is an
05:39E-message
05:40That's marked
05:41Most immediate
05:42It's from
05:43Washington DC
05:44The Pakistan mission
05:45In Washington DC
05:46Their embassy
05:47In Washington DC
05:47To their consulate
05:48In Los Angeles
05:49What's the subject
05:51Possible extradition
05:53Of Tahovar Rana
05:54To India
05:55This is in continuation
05:57Of the mission's
05:58Earlier correspondence
05:59On the above mentioned subject
06:01So this is in the
06:02First such letter
06:03Very clear from this letter
06:04That multiple letters
06:05Had gone out
06:06In the past
06:07And this is just
06:07In continuation
06:08So Pakistan
06:09Was tracking
06:10These developments
06:11Very closely
06:12In fact Pakistan
06:12Incidentally
06:13Has spent
06:14Millions of dollars
06:15To ensure
06:16Tahovar Hussain Rana
06:17Does not get extradited
06:18To India
06:19We'll also be getting
06:20You more details
06:20On that
06:21In the next
06:22Several days
06:23Reportedly
06:24The Hibis Corpus
06:25Appeal
06:26Of Mr. Rana
06:26The Hibis Corpus
06:27Appeal
06:28From his legal team
06:30Challenging the
06:31US District Court
06:31Decision to extradite
06:33Him to India
06:33Has been rejected
06:35And this is where
06:35Pakistan starts
06:36Panicking
06:37Watch that later
06:38The consulate general
06:39Is requested
06:40To share developments
06:41Including the
06:42Present status
06:42Of the appeal
06:43And future steps
06:44With this mission
06:45And continue
06:46Closely monitoring
06:47The case
06:48If Pakistan
06:49Has nothing
06:49To do
06:50With this gentleman
06:50Why
06:51Was Pakistan
06:52Closely monitoring
06:53This case
06:53And we'll tell you
06:54On India today
06:55Why
06:55Tahovar Hussain Rana
06:57Was a captain
06:58In Pakistan
06:59Army
06:59He was taking
07:00Instructions
07:01From Pakistan's
07:02ISI
07:02And Pakistan
07:03Is now
07:04Terrified
07:04It's terrified
07:05All this information
07:06Will spill out
07:07In public domain
07:08And perhaps
07:09In the past
07:10Perhaps
07:10Before 2014
07:12They could have
07:12Gotten away
07:13With blue murder
07:14Perhaps like
07:14They did
07:15After 26-11
07:16When India
07:16Did not respond
07:17To Pakistan
07:18State-sponsored terror
07:19But now
07:20They realize
07:21There will be
07:22Consequences
07:22India's effort
07:24Perhaps
07:24Would be to
07:25Ensure Pakistan
07:26Gets back
07:26In the financial
07:27Action task force
07:28Gray list
07:28And that
07:29India will
07:30Try and ensure
07:31That Pakistan
07:32Is treated
07:32Like an
07:33International terror
07:34Sponsor country
07:36And treated
07:36As such
07:37Now Pakistan
07:38Has a history
07:39Of lying
07:40That's why
07:40It's Jhutistan
07:41It lied on
07:42Osama bin Laden
07:43Being in
07:43Abbottabad
07:44Barely 200 meters
07:45From Pakistan
07:46Military Academy
07:47In Kakul
07:47In Abbottabad
07:48Pakistan lied
07:50About Ajmal Amir
07:51Kassab
07:52Being a Pakistani
07:53They claimed
07:54He's some Indian
07:55Initially
07:55Some Hindu terrorist
07:57As some of them
07:58Tried to claim
07:58And that was
07:59A wider nexus
08:00Of Hindu terror
08:00That the
08:01Bogi that they
08:02Spread
08:02Then Pakistan
08:03Actually claimed
08:04That he was a
08:05Pakistani
08:05He was working
08:06In Nepal
08:06Had been abducted
08:07From Nepal
08:07And taken
08:08To India
08:09So the extent
08:10To which Pakistan
08:11Lies
08:11So in India
08:14It's a major
08:14Breakthrough
08:14In the 26
08:157 Mumbai
08:15Terror attacks
08:16Tahvaro Senrana
08:17Is now in
08:18NIA custody
08:19And he's going
08:19To be interrogated
08:20Over the next
08:2118 days
08:22He'll be interrogated
08:23At length
08:24Then the agencies
08:25Will go back
08:26To court
08:26And perhaps
08:27See a longer
08:29Interrogation
08:30They'll probably
08:31See his custody
08:32For longer
08:33They may want
08:34To take him
08:34To some of the
08:34Places including
08:35Kochi and
08:36Pushkar
08:36And Haridwar
08:37Where they
08:38Planned future
08:39Terror attacks
08:39But the politics
08:40On the subject
08:40Within the country
08:41Is escalating
08:42We get you
08:43More in this report
08:43Tahavur Rana
08:49A key conspirator
08:50Behind the
08:512611
08:52Mumbai terror
08:52Attacks
08:53Is final in
08:54India
08:54After more
08:55Than 17
08:55Years
08:56But even
08:59Before the
08:59NIA investigation
09:00Resumes
09:01In full swing
09:02A political
09:03Slugfest
09:03Has begun
09:04Over who
09:04Deserves credit
09:05For bringing
09:06Rana back
09:06Opposition
09:08Opposition leaders
09:09Are asserting
09:09That it was
09:10During the
09:10UPA regime
09:11The groundwork
09:12For the
09:13Extradition
09:13Was laid
09:14So
09:16This
09:16BGP
09:17Rana
09:18Festival
09:18This
09:19Is
09:20This
09:21U.P.A. government, now the American government, after the 16th anniversary of the U.P.A. government,
09:28if you have the courage, bring it back.
09:33The basic work was made by Congress, the U.P.A. government.
09:40It was today, and it was in this country in the NIA.
09:51The U.P.A. has hit back, accusing the Congress of failing to act during its tenure.
09:56The ruling party claims that under its administration,
09:59a stronger and more proactive approach to national security has been adopted,
10:03leading to the pursuit and extradition of key terror perpetrators like Tahavur Rana.
10:21The U.P.A. government, the U.P.A. government,
10:26when the U.P.A. government's
10:49of Tahabul Rana marks a major milestone
10:51in India's pursuit of justice
10:53for the 2611 victims.
10:56Bureau Report, India Today.
11:01India Today's Shivani Sharma
11:03now joins me for more on this big story.
11:05Shivani, the interrogation has been on
11:07since 11 this morning.
11:08What's the latest that you can tell us?
11:10What are your sources in the NIA telling you?
11:42The interrogation is going on at the NIA headquarters
11:45where we are present right now
11:47and the lockup that was prepared for Rana,
11:50he was taken out from that lockup,
11:51he was taken to the interrogation room,
11:54the videography, the documentation
11:55of the question-answer session goes on
11:58and there are so many cross-verifications
12:02that the NIA has to do
12:04because there are already so many evidences
12:06in the chart sheet of the NIA against Rana,
12:09the way he collaborated and facilitated
12:11the terrorists in 2611 attacks.
12:13But majorly, three broad subjects
12:16have been lined by the NIA officials, Gaurav.
12:20One, about the 2611 attack,
12:22about his association with the Pakistan army,
12:26about his association with the Lashkar-e-Tayaba
12:28and the sleeper cells,
12:30the handlers who've been helping these terrorists
12:33in India who might be present even now as we speak.
12:37That's a very major aspect,
12:38the enemy across the border
12:40and the enemy within.
12:42Keep tracking that story, Shivani.
12:43I will come back to you for more.
12:45For the moment, many thanks.
12:47Meanwhile, a poster was displayed by local BJP leaders
12:52at a rally and that read,
12:54everyone will be exposed,
12:56all will be held accountable.
12:59The message was prominently displayed,
13:01reflecting the BJP's enthusiasm,
13:04the Carder's enthusiasm,
13:04following the extradition of Tahavur Hussain Rana.
13:08Leaders in Varanasi,
13:10where the Prime Minister is right now,
13:12they lauded Prime Minister Narendra Modi
13:14for ensuring Tahavur Hussain Rana
13:16has finally been extradited to India,
13:20showing it as a strong step towards justice
13:23and zero tolerance for terror
13:26and Narendra Modi government's strong stance
13:29on national security.
13:30We leave you with these images.