Tahawwur Rana, a co-conspirator in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, landed in India on Thursday (April 10), a day after a multi-agency Indian team left from the United States with him on a special flight on Wednesday.
The flight landed around 2.39 pm at the Palam Airport. He is likely to be lodged in Tihar Jail in Delhi.
The team had travelled to the US after the country’s Supreme Court dismissed Rana’s review plea seeking an emergency stay on his extradition to India.
According to the officials, high-security cells in Tihar Jail in the national capital and Arthur Road prison in Mumbai have been prepared for a high-risk detainee. The NIA has also recently obtained a court order on the transfer of his case from Mumbai to Delhi.
The agency may seek his custodial interrogation once he is brought to India and produced before the court. Rana will face the trial in the Mumbai terror attacks case.
