
Tahwwur Rana’s extradition: The US Supreme Court has allowed the extradition of India to India, accused in the Mumbai attack. This is a big victory for India. The court also dismissed a reconsideration petition against the sentence in the case.
Defected in 2008 terror attack case
India had been demanding extradition of Pakistani -origin Canadian citizen Tawwur Rana for many years. He is guilty of the 2008 Mumbai terror attack case. Let me tell you that he was involved in a series of terrorist attacks in Mumbai on 26 November 2008. Tahwwur Rana is a Canadian businessman of Pakistani origin.
Role of Tehwavur in 26/11 attack
The Mumbai Police included the name of Tawwur Rana in his charge sheet in connection with the 26/11 terror attack. He is accused of working as an active member of Pakistan’s intelligence agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and terrorist organization Lashkar-e-Taiba. In the charge sheet, Rana was accused of helping David Coleman Headley, the mastermind of the 26/11 terror attack. Tahwwur Rana had reconnated the locations in Mumbai where the attacks were to be carried out and prepared the blueprint and handed it over to the Pakistani terrorists.
Tahwwur Rana David Headley’s childhood friend
Tehwwur Rana David Coleman Headley aka Dawood is a childhood friend of Saeed Gilani. Headley is an American citizen. His mother was American and father was Pakistani. US authorities arrested him in Chicago in October 2009. On 24 January 2013, Headley was sentenced to 35 years in jail by the US court for being found guilty of involvement in the Mumbai attacks. Tehwavur Rana studied at Hasan Abdal Cadet School in Pakistan, where Headley studied for 5 years before going to America.
Worked as a doctor in Pakistani army
After serving as a doctor in the Pakistani Army, Tahavvur Rana moved to Canada. A few years later he was awarded Canadian citizenship. He founded a consultancy firm called ‘First World Immigration Services’ in Chicago, which was also a branch in Mumbai, Rana on 26 November 2008, in the terrorist attack by Pakistani terrorist organization Lashkar-e-Taiba, rented Mumbai sites in the Mumbai sites. Headley was assisted in taking. (LET)
10 terrorists entered Mumbai by sea
On 26 November 2008, 10 terrorists of Lashkar-e-Taiba entered Mumbai by taking a large amount of ammunition and weapons in Mumbai. He carried out bomb blasts at 9 places in Mumbai.
Places on the target of terrorists
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus, Oberoi Trident Hotel, Taj Hotel, Leopold Cafe, Cama Hospital, Nariman House, Metro Cinema, Times of India Building and the street behind St. Xavier’s College. Taxis also exploded in Mumbai’s port areas Majgaon and Vile Parle. By the morning of 28 November, the Mumbai Police and security forces had secured all the places except the Taj Hotel. The National Security Guard (NSG) had to take help to eliminate the terrorists hidden in the Taj Hotel. The NSG launched ‘Operation Black Torneado’ on 29 November, which ended with the death of the last attackers at the Taj Hotel. With this, a 72 -hour terrorist attack in Mumbai ended. A total of 166 people, including 6 American citizens, were killed and more than 300 people were injured in this terrorist attack.
Rana investigated places of attack in Mumbai
After the arrest of David Coleman Headley at the O’Hey Airport in Chicago in October 2009, Tawwur Rana was also arrested by the US police. In 2011, he was convicted by a Chicago court to provide Lashkar-e-Taiba for providing logistics assistance to the Mumbai attacks and an attack on Danish newspapers, Galends-Posten’s offices. In 2005, the Districts-Posten newspaper came into controversy by publishing a cartoon of the Prophet. David Coleman Headley told the court during his trial that in July 2006 he had gone to Chicago to meet Tawwur Rana. Rana then told him about the Mumbai Mission.
Headley gets a business visa in India
Tahwwur Rana established a branch of his firm ‘First World Immigration Service’ in Mumbai with the help of David Coleman Headley. He helped Headley to get a business visa in India for 5 years. Headley then investigated the places in Mumbai where Lashkar militants were attacked on 26 November 2008. In 2011, the NIA filed a charge sheet against nine people, including Tahawwur Rana, to plan and carry out the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks. In 2014, the Delhi Sessions Court issued a non-bailable warrant against the accused whom the NIA described as a fugitive in its charge sheet.
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