26/11 terror assault case: Courtroom paves approach for prosecution of Tahawwur Rana in Delhi

NEW DELHI: A Delhi courtroom on Thursday sought the trial data of the 26/11 terror assault from a Mumbai courtroom following United States’ nod to the extradition of key accused Tahawwur Rana.Performing on the petition of Nationwide Investigation Company, district decide Vimal Kumar Yadav directed Mumbai courtroom officers to provide the data.The trial courtroom data had been beforehand despatched to Mumbai as a result of presence of a number of circumstances associated to the 26/11 assaults in each cities.Earlier, US Supreme Courtroom rejected Rana’s closing attraction on January 21, eradicating the final authorized hurdle for his extradition.A courtroom within the US beforehand dominated that Pakistani-origin Canadian businessman Rana could possibly be extradited to India the place he’s needed within the 2008 Mumbai terror assault carried out by Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists.Rana, a Pakistani-origin Canadian citizen, was convicted within the US for supporting the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and is needed in India for his alleged function in facilitating the Mumbai assaults that killed over 174 folks. His extradition had been a long-pending demand from India.Rana’s function within the 26/11 assault entails serving to his pal David Coleman Headley alias Daood Gilani, a US citizen who was born to an American mom and a Pakistani father.Headley was arrested by the US authorities in October 2009. Rana was allegedly not solely conscious of Headley’s hyperlinks to the Pakistan-based banned terror organisation LeT, he additionally actively helped Headley. Rana offered Headley with a faux id that helped the latter go to India and establish targets for LeT’s 2008 assault.