2008 Mumbai assaults: Court seeks Tihar’s response on Tahawwur Rana’s plea-OxBig News Network

26/11 Mumbai assault accused Tahawwur Hussain Rana being produced on the Patiala House Court, in New Delhi, Friday, May 9, 2025.
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A Delhi courtroom on Wednesday (May 28, 2025) directed Tihar jail authorities to file a response to jailed 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks accused Tahawwur Hussain Rana’s plea looking for permission to talk to his relations.

Special Judge Chander Jit Singh issued discover to jail authorities on Rana’s plea and directed them to additionally file a standing report within the matter by June 4, the subsequent date of listening to.

The 64-year-old Pakistani-origin Canadian businessman is at present in judicial custody.

Rana, a detailed affiliate of the 26/11 Mumbai terror assaults essential conspirator David Coleman Headley alias Daood Gilani, a U.S. citizen, was delivered to India after the US Supreme Court on April 4 dismissed his assessment plea towards his extradition.

Senior advocate Dayan Krishnan and Special Public Prosecutor Narender Mann represented the NIA.

Before the proceedings, the decide requested Rana if he had a lawyer.

After Rana stated he didn’t have a lawyer, the decide knowledgeable him {that a} counsel was being supplied to him from the Delhi Legal Services Authority. After that, advocate Piyush Sachdeva was appointed to symbolize him.

Rana is accused of conspiring with Headley and operatives of designated terrorist organisations Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Harkat-ul-Jihadi Islami (HUJI) together with different Pakistan-based co-conspirators, to hold out the three-day terror siege of India’s monetary capital.

On November 26, 2008, a bunch of 10 Pakistani terrorists went on a rampage, finishing up a coordinated assault on a railway station, two luxurious resorts and a Jewish centre, after they sneaked into India’s monetary capital utilizing the ocean route within the Arabian Sea.

As many as 166 folks had been killed within the almost 60-hour assault.