Govt plans probe into security lapse in grant of visa to Rana

New Delhi, Nov 17 (PTI) With reports suggesting that
Indian Consul General in Chicago had granted visas to terror
suspect Tahawwur Rana without Home Ministry's clearance,
Indian Government Tuesday said the security lapse would be
"looked into very carefully"

"All these issues are going to be looked into very
carefully from the point of view of security angle and perhaps
in the days to come, you might see more on this," India's
External Affairs Minister S M Krishna told reporters on the
sidelines of a Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and
Industry (FICCI) event here in Indian national capital New
Delhi.
The Minister was replying to a query if the government
was planning to probe the security lapse in view of granting
of visa to David Headley and Tahawwur Rana by the Indian
Consul General in Chicago and Rana's visit to various Indian
cities.
Copies of visas issued to Pakistani-Canadian Rana and
a woman Samraz Rana Akhthar, who he claimed to be his wife,
show that both were issued multiple entry visas under the
discretion of the Consul General.
This was done in apparent violation of rules under
which clearance of Ministry of Home Affairs is required for
any person born in Pakistan.
Both Rana and the woman with him are born in the
Punjab province of Pakistan.
Rana is an associate of a US citizen David Headley,
who has also been arrested on terror charges by the FBI last
month for their connections with terror group Lashker-e-Taiba.
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