The Centre on Thursday introduced a staff together with Solicitor-Basic Tushar Mehta and Further Solicitor-Basic S V Raju to guide the Nationwide Investigation Company’s prosecution in opposition to Tahawwur Rana, who has been extradited from the US practically 16 years after his arrest for his function within the 26/11 Mumbai terrorist assaults.
Final week, New Delhi’s Patiala Home Court docket despatched Rana to judicial custody in Tihar Jail until June 6 after he was produced earlier than Particular NIA Choose Chander Jit Singh a day earlier than his NIA custody ended. The NIA collected Rana’s voice and handwriting samples earlier than the choose.
In a gazette notification issued on Thursday, Abhijit Sinha, Further Secretary, Ministry of House Affairs, mentioned, “In train of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of part 15 of the NIA, learn with sub-section (8) of part 18 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023, the Central Authorities hereby appoints a staff of Particular Public Prosecutors headed by Tushar Mehta, Solicitor Basic of India with S V Raju, Further Solicitor Basic together with Dayan Krishnan, Senior Advocate and Narender Mann, Advocate (already notified as Particular Public Prosecutors) for conducting trial and different issues associated to NIA case RC 04/2009/NIA/DLI on behalf of the Nationwide Investigation Company earlier than the NIA Particular Courts at Delhi, Hon’ble Excessive Court docket of Delhi and Hon’ble Supreme Court docket of India for a interval of three years from the date of publication of this notification or until the completion of trial of the mentioned case, whichever is earlier, on the phrases and circumstances as prescribed in Division of Authorized Affairs’ notification dated October 1, 2015.”
Senior advocate Dayan Krishnan and Particular Public Prosecutor Narender Mann now signify the NIA earlier than the Patiala Home Court docket. Authorized support counsel Piyush Sachdev and Lakshya Dheer appeared for Rana.
Rana, a detailed affiliate of 26/11 fundamental conspirator David Coleman Headley, was dropped at India on April 10 after his extradition from the US.
Final month, the Centre shaped a authorized staff headed by Krishnan, who can also be thought of an knowledgeable in extradition legislation and had led India’s arguments for the extradition of Rana in a US court docket. He was additionally the particular public prosecutor within the proceedings in search of the extradition of Headley, the Lashkar-e-Taiba scout for the 26/11 assaults, from the US. He was additionally a part of a four-member staff that visited Chicago to query Headley.
Rana is accused of aiding and abetting the reconnaissance carried out by Headley, with whom he went to highschool in Pakistan, for the 26/11 assaults and of collaborating within the conspiracy by offering essential logistical assist to the attackers.
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Rana was arrested in Chicago in 2009, months after the Mumbai terror assaults in November 2008, wherein 166 folks had been killed.
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