Tight security arrangements at the Patiala House Courts in New Delhi on April 10, 2025.
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Security has been stepped up outside Delhi’s Patiala House Court where Mumbai terror attack accused Tahawwur Rana is likely to be produced on Thursday (April 10, 2025) following his extradition from the U.S., 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.
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An National Investigation Agency (NIA) judge is expected to hear the matter.
Meanwhile, Tihar Jail officials said all preparations have been made to lodge Rana in a high-security prison ward and they were waiting for court orders. According to officials, a multi-agency team had gone to the U.S. to bring him to India.
Also, the Centre has appointed a special public prosecutor, Narender Mann, to conduct a trial in the case related to Mumbai terror attack case accused Rana.
Rana, a key accused in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, is being brought to Delhi from the US. He is likely to be lodged in Tihar jail when he reaches India. 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 U.S. citizen.
Rana is being brought to India after his last-ditch attempt to evade extradition failed as the U.S. Supreme Court justices rejected his application.
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.
Published – April 10, 2025 01:36 pm IST