- Saturday, April 12, 2025
Rana is a Pakistan-born Canadian national and close associate of David Coleman Headley, one of the main conspirators of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks
By: India Weekly
MUMBAI terror attack case accused Tahawwur Hussain Rana, who is being extradited from the US, is likely to be lodged in a high-security ward in Tihar jail here when he reaches India, prison sources said.
All necessary preparations have been made in the jail, they said.
Rana, 64, is a Pakistan-born Canadian national and close associate of one of the main conspirators of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks David Coleman Headley alias Daood Gilani, a US citizen.
Rana is being brought to India after his last-ditch attempt to evade extradition failed as the US Supreme Court justices rejected his application.
According to officials, a multi-agency team had gone to the US to bring him to India.
Court security
Security has been stepped up outside Delhi’s Patiala House Court where Rana is likely to be produced following his extradition from the US, an official said.
Personnel from paramilitary forces and the Delhi Police have been deployed outside the court and a thorough physical frisking and checking of visitors is being carried out to avoid any untoward incident, he said.
An NIA judge is expected to hear the matter.
Trial records
A Delhi court has received the trial records of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks ahead of Rana’s arrival in India, a court source said.
Rana, a key accused in the 2008 attacks, is being brought to India on a special flight on Thursday (10) after his last-ditch attempt to evade extradition failed as the US Supreme Court justices rejected his application.
The records were received by the court of district judge Vimal Kumar Yadav recently in pursuance of his January 28 direction to the staff of a Mumbai court to send the records.
The judge passed the order on an application moved by the National Investigation Agency in Delhi, seeking to retrieve the records from Mumbai.
The trial court records were previously sent to Mumbai due to the presence of multiple cases related to the 26/11 attacks in both cities.
On November 26, 2008, a group of 10 Pakistani terrorists went on a rampage, carrying out a coordinated attack on a railway station, two luxury hotels and a Jewish centre, after they sneaked into India’s financial capital using the sea route in the Arabian Sea.
As many as 166 people were killed in the nearly 60-hour assault that sent shockwaves across the country and even brought India and Pakistan to the brink of war. (PTI)
