New Delhi:
India’s most wanted Tahwur Hussain Rana, who is accused of plotting 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai, is coming back to face the law. A special flight left him from the US this evening when he ended all the legal paths to prevent his extradition.
64 -year -old Rana will land in Delhi tomorrow afternoon, sources said, and will be arrested immediately by the National Investigation Agency. A joint team of the National Investigation Agency and the research and analysis wing are reportedly bringing it back.
Sources said that they were likely to be presented in a Delhi court. The Mumbai Police has not been officially informed when it will be transferred to the city. He has been accused of waging war under the Criminal conspiracy, Government of India, murder and forgery and illegal activities (prevention) Act.
A Canadian citizen of Pakistani origin, located in Chicago, is accused of playing an important role in attacks on Tahwur Rana, killing 166.
The main accused in the 2008 attack, Pakistani-American terrorist David Coleman Headley had said that Rana had increased logistic and financial assistance to operate terror and its run-up. Headley rejuvenated Mumbai before the attacks by presenting Rana’s immigration consultation as an employee.
The Federal Investigation Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested Rana in Chicago in October 2009-A year after the Mumbai attacks-Denish capital Copenhagen to provide assistance for an abortion plan to attack a newspaper in Copenhagen and to provide material assistance to Pakistan-based terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taba, which was responsible for the Mumbai attacks. In 2011, Rana was convicted in the US for the conspiracy and recently recorded at a metropolitan detention center at Los Angeles.
During a joint press conference with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the White House in February, President Donald Trump announced that his administration had approved Rana’s extradition.
“I am happy to declare that my administration has approved extradition of one of the very bad people in the world, with the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack to face justice in India. So he is going back to India to face justice,” said President Trump.
In 2008, a three -day attack that destroyed the financial capital of India targeted a hotel, a train station and a Jewish center in Mumbai. India has said that Lashkar-e-Tabiba pointed to the attacks. The government of Pakistan has denied any participation.
