Legal Team Headed By SG Tushar Mehta Appointed For Trial Against Tahawwur Rana

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Last Updated:May 16, 2025, 10:35 IST

The authorities has appointed Solicitor General Tushar Mehta and a apical ineligible squad to prosecute extradited violent Tahawwur Rana successful the 26/11 Mumbai attacks case.

The authorities has appointed a squad of lawyers headed by Solicitor General Tushar Mehta to behaviour a proceedings against extradited Pakistani-Canadian violent Tahawwur Hussain Rana successful the 26/11 Mumbai panic onslaught case.

In a notification, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said the assignment has been made exercising the powers conferred nether the National Investigation Agency Act, 2008 and the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023.

The cardinal authorities hereby appoints a squad of Special Public Prosecutors headed by Solicitor General Tushar Mehta and comprising Additional Solicitor General SV Raju, elder advocator Dayan Krishnan and advocator Narender Mann for conducting proceedings and different matters related to the lawsuit RC-04/2009/NIA/DLI connected behalf of the NIA earlier the NIA Special Courts astatine Delhi, High Court of Delhi and Supreme Court of India for 3 years oregon till the completion of proceedings of the said case, whichever is earlier, the notification said.

The RC-04/2009/NIA/DLI pertains to the lawsuit registered with the NIA successful Delhi involving the proceedings of Rana and David Coleman Headley successful transportation with the 26/11 Mumbai panic attacks.

The NIA secured Rana’s extradition from the US pursuing years of sustained efforts and arrested him connected April 10 upon his accomplishment here.

Rana is accused of being progressive successful the larger conspiracy down the 2008 dastardly strikes orchestrated by Pakistan-based violent radical Lashkar-e-Taiba successful which 166 radical were killed and implicit 238 were injured.

He was sent to judicial custody connected May 9 and lodged successful Tihar jailhouse aft his custodial interrogation by the NIA.

During the custody, Rana was grilled by the NIA investigators for astir 8 to 10 hours regular to unearth the larger conspiracy down the 2008 panic onslaught case.

The 64-year-old Pakistani-origin Canadian violent was besides accused of making a ample fig of telephone calls to his co-conspirator, David Coleman Headley alias Daood Gilani, a US national presently successful situation successful that country.

Rana had besides allegedly travelled successful parts of bluish and confederate India days earlier the carnage successful the country’s fiscal superior connected November 26, 2008.

Rana has been charged with galore offences, including conspiracy, murder, committee of a violent enactment and forgery successful the country.

The anti-terror bureau had registered a lawsuit connected November 11, 2009, nether sections 121 A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), Section 18 of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and Section 6(2) SAARC Convention (Suppression of Terrorism) Act against Headley, his puerility person Rana and others.

During the NIA investigation, the roles of elder functionaries of panic groups LeT and Harkat-ul Jihadi Islami (HuJI) — Hafiz Muhammad Saeed alias Tayyaji, Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, Sajjid Majid alias Wasi, Illyas Kashmiri and Abdur Rehman Hashim Syed alias Major Abdurrehman alias Pasha — had besides emerged.

These conspirators worked successful progressive connivance with officials from Pakistan’s spy bureau ISI, namely Major Iqbal alias Major Ali and Major Sameer Ali alias Major Samir, according to the NIA probe.

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