Kerala Police said today that Tahawwur Hussain Rana, arrested along with suspected LeT terrorist David Coleman Headley of the U.S, had visited Kochi before the Mumbai terror strikes posing as an immigration consultant and was accompanied by a woman .<br/>Intelligence agencies and state police have come across evidences regarding Rana's visit. Police said, Rana, who arrived in Kochi on November 16, 2008, along with a woman called Samraz Akthar, and checked into a five-star hotel in the city and left for umbai the next afternoon.<br/>Besides confirming the hotel records, investigators had also found an advertisement that appeared in a newspaper stating that he would be in Kochi, New Delhi, Ahmedabad and Mumbai for offering visas to United States and Canada for job aspirants. The advertisement claimed Rana was a Chicago-based emigration consultant. <br/>State Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan said the police is examining if the person who had visited Kochi was the same Rana now under arrest in the United States.<br/>