 However, this confession was later found to be obtained under duress.In late 2011, Aseemanand wrote a petition to President of India Pratibha Patil describing torture allegedly meted out to him during his confinement, prompting the Punjab and Haryana high courts to issue a notice to the National Investigation Agency to investigate the allegations of torture

Security analyst Bahukutumbi Raman questioned "the two different versions that have emerged from Indian and American investigators.