Mumbai terror attack case accused Tahawwur Hussain Rana was successfully brought back to India from the US on Thursday (April 10, 2025). He landed at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport at around 6.30 pm and later produced in NIA Special Court at Patiala House.
A key accused in the 26/11 attacks, Rana departed from the US on a special flight on Wednesday (April 9, 2025), after his last-ditch attempt to evade extradition failed. He was brought back by the National Investigation Agency (NIA).
The court on Friday (April 11, 2025) sent Rana to 18-day NIA custody, following which he was brought from Patiala House courts complex to the NIA headquarters in a heavily-secured motorcade comprising Delhi Police’s Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) and other security personnel.
The 64-year-old Pakistani-origin Canadian businessman, was a close associate of 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks main conspirator David Coleman Headley alias Daood Gilani, a U.S. citizen.
Rana is accused of conspiring with Headley and operatives of designated terrorist organisations Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Harkat-ul-Jihadi Islami (HUJI) along with other Pakistan-based co-conspirators, to carry out the three-day terror siege of India’s financial capital.
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.
Here is a timeline on Tahawwur Hussain Rana and his alleged involvement in one of the worst terror attack the country has ever witnessed:
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Published - April 11, 2025 01:14 pm IST
