New Delhi, May 4 -- The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Saturday collected the voice and handwriting samples of Tahawwur Rana, the alleged mastermind behind the 2008 Mumbai terror attack, before a Delhi court. Rana was brought under tight security before Judicial Magistrate First Class Vaibhav Kumar, where the NIA recorded his handwriting specimens in an in-chamber proceeding. The terror accused wrote various alphabets and numerical characters, people aware of the matter said. Legal aid counsel Piyush Sachdev, who represented Rana, said that he "fully complied with a recent court order directing him to submit samples of his voice and handwriting". P6

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