Meet IPS officers in NIA, who brought Tahawwur Rana to India, interrogating him

Two senior National Investigation Agency (NIA) officers - Ashish Batra and Jaya Roy - led the extradition process of Tahawwur Hussain Rana. Also, Jaya Roy is interrogating him. Both of them are from Jharkhand cadre. Ashish Batra, a 1997-batch Indian Police Service (IPS) is currently serving as the Inspector General (IG) in the NIA. He was deputed to the agency in 2019 for a five-year term, which has been extended by two years by the Ministry of Home Affairs. On Friday, Tahawwur Rana was interrogated by a team of 12 officers, led by DIG Jaya Roy, a 2011 batch IPS officer. Roy is also from the Jharkhand cadre and is currently working as the DIG at NIA. The IPS officer was sent to the NIA in 2019 as the Superintendent of Police (SP) for four years, on deputation. Roy was also posted in Jamtara, where her crackdown on cyber criminals is often talked about.