A group comprising senior advocate and ace prison lawyer Dayan Krishnan and particular prosecutor Narender Mann is ready to guide the Nationwide Investigation Company’s (NIA) prosecution in New Delhi towards Tahawwur Rana who has been extradited from the US almost 16 years after his arrest for his position within the 26/11 Mumbai terror assaults.
Whereas each attorneys have many years of expertise in main instances for the prosecution, Krishnan, who can also be thought-about an knowledgeable in extradition regulation, led India’s arguments for the extradition of Rana in a US court docket.
He was additionally the particular public prosecutor within the proceedings for the extradition of David Coleman Headley, the Lashkar-e-Taiba scout for the 26/11 assaults, from the US, and was particular counsel for CBI within the extradition of Ravi Shankaran, a retired Navy officer accused of leaking categorised data, from the UK. He was a part of a four-member group which visited Chicago to interrogate Headley.
He was additionally a particular counsel of CBI, on behalf of the Indian authorities, within the extradition of Raymond Varley from the UK, accused within the Goa baby abuse scandal.
A graduate of the Nationwide Regulation Faculty of India College, Krishnan was designated as a senior advocate by the Delhi Excessive Court docket in 2014. He has a prolific prison observe, dealing with a number of high-profile instances over time.
A few of the key instances that he has dealt with as a prosecutor embrace the 2001 Parliament assault case and the 2012 Delhi gangrape case, through which the accused obtained the demise sentence.
At present, Krishnan seems for a number of authorities companies and their instrumentalities, together with for the Delhi Police, Wrestling Federation of India. He additionally seems as amicus curiae, together with in a latest case at Delhi Excessive Court docket the place the state was directed earlier this month to border tips for securing property rights of orphan kids.
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The Ministry of Residence Affairs has appointed advocate Narender Mann who’s a former CBI counsel. The 58-year-old lawyer has been appointed a particular public prosecutor for 3 years in Rana’s case.
From January 2011 to April 2019, Mann was appointed as particular public prosecutor to symbolize the CBI earlier than the Delhi Excessive Court docket.
Among the many instances through which he appeared had been the 2G telecom spectrum rip-off and appeals within the case involving an try to assassinate Chief Justice of India A N Ray in 1975. The Delhi Excessive Court docket upheld the conviction in 2014.