The mystery shrouding the disappearance of Anita Uddaiya, a key witness in the 26 November terror strikes on Mumbai, deepened on Thursday with the 47 year old claiming she was taken to the United States and questioned by the FBI on her sighting of Pakistani Terrorists reaching Mumbai shores.
Anita, a scrap dealer, lives in the Colaba Fishermen Colony off Cuffe Parade, where the terrorists had landed in a dinghy before melting into crowds to resurface at several locations to spawn death and destruction.
The lady had spotted the 10 odd men as they alighted from the dinghy. Since then, she has been helping the Mumbai crime branch as the most valuable eyewitness to the carnage.
The FBI, which is actively involved in the ongoing probe, was also allowed to interrogate her last month.
Since her mysterious disappearance on Sunday, reports said that she had been taken to the US for further interrogation by the FBI, the Mumbai crime branch however refused comment.
Anita resurfaced on Wednesday and reported to Cuffe Parade police station and said she had gone to Satara to meet her sister.
But on Thursday, she claimed that she had been taken to US by investigators who questioned her for a couple of hours.
“I was informed that US officers, who questioned me about the Mumbai attacks earlier, will take me to America. They came on Sunday morning and took me to America,” claimed Anita.
When asked about her Wednesday’s claim that she had gone to Satara, she said she had been told by US officers to maintain secrecy about her visit.
Four American officers, including one that spoke Hindi, drove up in a swank vehicle and took her to St. George Hospital “to see my husband Rajendra, before I was taken to the airport,” she said.
“It was an uncomfortable journey of 17-18 hours,” she said. She could not say where she landed but on alighting from the flight, she was taken to a posh hotel.
After a couple of hours, “we all went to a building where I was asked several questions about the terrorists and Mumbai attacks,” she said.
“The questions were translated in Hindi by one of them and whatever answers I had given were also explained to them in English. Everything was over in two to three hours,” she said.
She said she was again driven back to the hotel and then to the airport to board a flight back to Mumbai.
(Internet Inputs)
Anita, a scrap dealer, lives in the Colaba Fishermen Colony off Cuffe Parade, where the terrorists had landed in a dinghy before melting into crowds to resurface at several locations to spawn death and destruction.
The lady had spotted the 10 odd men as they alighted from the dinghy. Since then, she has been helping the Mumbai crime branch as the most valuable eyewitness to the carnage.
The FBI, which is actively involved in the ongoing probe, was also allowed to interrogate her last month.
Since her mysterious disappearance on Sunday, reports said that she had been taken to the US for further interrogation by the FBI, the Mumbai crime branch however refused comment.
Anita resurfaced on Wednesday and reported to Cuffe Parade police station and said she had gone to Satara to meet her sister.
But on Thursday, she claimed that she had been taken to US by investigators who questioned her for a couple of hours.
“I was informed that US officers, who questioned me about the Mumbai attacks earlier, will take me to America. They came on Sunday morning and took me to America,” claimed Anita.
When asked about her Wednesday’s claim that she had gone to Satara, she said she had been told by US officers to maintain secrecy about her visit.
Four American officers, including one that spoke Hindi, drove up in a swank vehicle and took her to St. George Hospital “to see my husband Rajendra, before I was taken to the airport,” she said.
“It was an uncomfortable journey of 17-18 hours,” she said. She could not say where she landed but on alighting from the flight, she was taken to a posh hotel.
After a couple of hours, “we all went to a building where I was asked several questions about the terrorists and Mumbai attacks,” she said.
“The questions were translated in Hindi by one of them and whatever answers I had given were also explained to them in English. Everything was over in two to three hours,” she said.
She said she was again driven back to the hotel and then to the airport to board a flight back to Mumbai.
(Internet Inputs)
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