KEY POINTS
- Key conspirator in 26/11 Mumbai attacks, arrived in India on April 10, 2025
- Indian team went to the U.S. after Rana’s appeal to stop extradition was rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court
- Rana is expected to be kept in high-security Tihar Jail in Delhi
Tahawwur Rana, the key conspirator in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, arrived in India on Thursday. He was brought back on a special flight after an Indian team went to the United States to bring him. The flight landed around 2:39 pm, and he is expected to be kept in Tihar Jail in Delhi.
The Indian team had gone to the US after the country’s Supreme Court rejected Rana’s request to stop his extradition to India. Officials have made special high-security cells in Tihar Jail and Arthur Road prison in Mumbai for him. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has also got permission to move his case from Mumbai to Delhi.
Once in India, the NIA may ask for his questioning and will put him on trial for his role in the Mumbai terror attacks.
About Tahawwur Rana
Rana, a Canadian citizen of Pakistani origin, was recently brought to India after spending years in a U.S. prison for his links to Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). He was not an ordinary man. He was a double agent – someone who pretended to run a business but was secretly helping terrorists.
He gave cover to David Coleman Headley, a Pakistani-American terrorist, by using his company “First World Immigration Services” as a fake front. Through this, Headley carried out surveillance on Indian targets and planned the deadly 2008 Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people, including six Americans.
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