The lone suspect captured by police during militants' attacks on Mumbai in November expressed remorse and wept while being questioned soon after his arrest, a newspaper reported on Saturday. Pakistani national Mohammed Ajmal Amir Iman, also known as Kasab, said his father forced him to join a hard-line Islamist commando unit to earn money for the family, the Mumbai Mirror newspaper reported, quoting a police transcript.
The newspaper, which gave no details about how it obtained the transcript, said it was a verbatim account of Iman's questioning for about an hour after his arrest. "My father told me we will get lots of money. We would be able to live like other rich people," Iman allegedly said in the transcript translated from Hindi and Urdu.
Iman, 21, is in Indian police custody and faces trial for murder and "waging war against India".
Mumbai police declined comment on the report, in which one policeman was quoted as telling Iman that, "Crying like this will not help. The people who lost their lives, they were poor and innocent, like you."
Iman, accused of being part of a 10-man group that killed 165 people in a 60-hour killing spree in Mumbai, allegedly belonged to the banned Pakistan-based Islamist group, Lashkar-e-Taiba.