NIA court extends Tahawwur Rana’s custody for 12 more days

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26/11 Mumbai attack accused Tahawwur Rana produced before Delhi court after NIA remand ends



The NIA has claimed before the court that Rana planned several plots similar to the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks to target multiple Indian cities, including Delhi.In its previous remand order, the court directed the NIA to conduct Rana’s medical examination every 24 hours, and allow him to meet his lawyer every alternate day.The court allowed Rana to use only a “soft-tip pen” and meet his lawyer in the presence of the NIA officials, who would be out of an audible distance.During the arguments on the last occasion, the NIA said Rana’s custody was required to piece together the full scope of the conspiracy, and submitted he was required to be taken to various locations for retracing the events that took place 17 years ago.Rana, a close associate of 26/11 main conspirator David Coleman Headley alias Daood Gilani, a US citizen, was brought to India after the US Supreme Court on April 4 dismissed his review plea against his extradition to India.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.



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