New Delhi, Apr 10 (PTI) Mumbai terror attack case accused Tahawwur Hussain Rana was produced before a special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court here amid tight security on Thursday night, hours after he was extradited from the US.
Rana was brought to the court in a cavalcade including a jail van, an armoured SWAT vehicle and an ambulance.
He was produced before Special NIA judge Chander Jit Singh, who is currently hearing arguments on Rana’s custody.
Senior advocate Dayan Krishnan and Special Public Prosecutor Narender Mann are representing the NIA while advocate Piyush Sachdeva from the Delhi Legal Services Authority is representing Rana.
Before Rana was brought to the Patiala House Court, Delhi Police removed mediapersons and members of the public from the complex, citing security concerns.
Police authorities said, “No one would be permitted inside”.
Rana, a close associate of 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks main conspirator David Coleman Headley alias Daood Gilani, a US citizen, was brought to India on Thursday after the US Supreme Court on April 4 dismissed his review plea against his extradition to India.
A Delhi court recently received the trial records of the Mumbai attacks ahead of Rana’s extradition from the US, a source said.
They were received by the court of District Judge Vimal Kumar Yadav 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 NIA.
The trial court records were previously sent to Mumbai as various cases related to the attacks are registered there.
Rana, 64, a Pakistani-origin Canadian businessman, is accused of conspiring with Headley and operatives of designated terrorist organisations Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Harkat-ul-Jihadi Islami (HUJI) along with other Pakistan-based co-conspirators, to carry out the three-day terror siege of India’s financial capital.
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. PTI UK DIV DIV
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