Grilling starts today after Tahawwur Rana’s extradition | 10 updates

A Delhi court placed Tahawwur Hussain Rana, who was extradited from the US to India, in NIA custody for eighteen days.

One of the main suspects in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, Tahawwur Hussain Rana, was being questioned by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday.

According to PTI, Tahawwur Rana will be subjected to a thorough interrogation in order to reveal the full scope of the plot behind the deadly 26/11 terror attack.

A Delhi court on Thursday ordered Tahawwur Rana, who was extradited from the United States to India, to be held in NIA custody for eighteen days. After officially placing Rana under arrest upon his arrival at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport in New Delhi on Thursday, the anti-terror agency produced him before the NIA Special Court at Patiala House.

Here is the most recent case update:

* Late Thursday night, Tahawwur Hussain Rana was taken to the Patiala House Court in a cavalcade that included an ambulance, an armored SWAT vehicle, and a jail van.
* The NIA had requested Rana’s custody for 20 days in order to question him, according to sources that PTI cited.
* The agency informed the court that in order to uncover the broader conspiracy behind the 2008 attacks, Rana had to be questioned. It also stated that it needed to investigate his involvement in the attack planning.

* The judge asked Rana if he had legal representation prior to the proceedings. The judge told Rana that the Delhi Legal Services Authority was providing him with legal representation after he stated that he was without one.
* Rana was taken from the Patiala House court complex to the NIA headquarters in a heavily guarded motorcade that included Delhi Police’s Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) and other security guards after the court granted the NIA custody for eighteen days.

* According to PTI, which cited unnamed officials, Rana will be detained in a highly secured cell within the anti-terror agency’s headquarters at the CGO complex here.
* Rana will face charges that carry the death penalty, including terrorism, murder, and waging war against the state.
* Sections 120 B (criminal conspiracy), 121 (waging war), 121A (conspiracy to wage war), 302 (murder), 468 and 471 (forgery), and sections 18 and 20 of the strict Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA), which address terrorist activity, are the sections under which the National Investigation Agency (NIA) named Rana as an accused and requested his extradition.

* Rana cannot be tried for offenses other than those for which extradition was requested or offenses that are crimes in both India and the United States, as per the guarantees made to the US by the Indian governmeRana, a 64-year-old Canadian businessman of Pakistani descent, is close to David Coleman Headley, also known as Daood Gilanis, the primary conspirator behind the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.

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