Anti Terrorist Unit

This article covers characters and concepts from the Indian adaptation of 24.

The Anti Terrorist Unit (or ATU) was an Indian government agency that dealt with terrorist threats the nation. It was headquartered in Mumbai, and fell under the purview of RAW.

History

The ATU was set up shortly after the terrorist attack of 26th November, 2008, in Mumbai. The headquarters were established in that city, and Jai Singh Rathod was installed as chief of the agency.

On Day 1, they were tasked with protecting the life of Aditya Singhania, the incoming Prime Minister. A mole was uncovered in the organisation, and Singhania was ultimately saved from being assassinated by the LTFE group. During Day 2, the ATU was responsible for preventing a biological threat against Mumbai.

Missions

Day	Mission
Day 1	Protecting Aditya Singhania
	RAW agent Vicky passed word that there was a plot against newly elected Prime Minister Aditya Singhania. Jai Singh Rathod and the rest of ATU were charged with keeping Aditya safe; however, Rathod's family were kidnapped by Yakub Syed and he was forced to work against the agency. Once his family were safe, he identified the LTFE group as behind the attack, as revenge for Operation Trishul which had taken place ten years previously. After foiling Bala Ravindran's plan to plant a bomb on Aditya's press secretary, Jai also saved Aditya from a bomb concealed in a phone and took out a sniper targeting a late night press conference.
Day 2	Preventing a virus outbreak

Staff

ATU chiefs

• Jai Singh Rathod
• Abhilasha Grewal (acting)
• Mahinder Gill (acting)
• Shibani Mallick
• Siddharth Saigal (acting)
• Vedant Acharya (acting)

Intelligence agents

• Nikita Rai
• Tejpal Singh
• Mihir
• Jiah Pastakhia
• Aditya
• Mukesh
• Vinod
• Pal

Field agents

• Gandhi
• Kabir
• Nakul
• Dibakar Pandit
• Rehman
• Chandrashekhar Rao
• Siddharth Sharma
• Omar Sheikh
• Ronak Tiwari
• Varun
• Veena

Background information and notes

• ATU replaces the Counter Terrorist Unit of the original series.