New Delhi: Tavavur Rana (4), one of the main plotters 26/11 Mumbai AttackBeing kept on “Suicide clock“After a special court in a highly secured cell within the National Investigation Agency (NIA) headquarters, the anti-terrorism agency was given its 18-day custody here.
Pakistani-Canadian, which was brought here from the US on Thursday evening after its extradition, is under 24/7 human and CCTV surveillance. Nia Headquarters on Lodhi Road has been given blanket in multi -level security. A source said, “Rana is placed in a 14×14 cell on the ground floor. Only a soft-tip pen will be allowed to write him so that he does not harm himself,” a source said.
On Friday, Nia started questioning Rana to highlight the big conspiracy behind the terrorist strike. There is a possibility of focusing on inquiry, besides their relations with ISI, partnership with sleeper cells in India, especially associated with their colleague, David Coleman HeadleyAka Dud Gilani. Sources said that Headley is suspected of recruiting sleeper cells in Pushkar, Goa, Delhi and other places.
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New Delhi: One day accused Tavavur Hussain Rana was extradited from America to India on a Mumbai terror attack, the Congress said that the Modi government did not start the process and really benefited from the “mature, consistent and strategic diplomacy” which started under the UPA.
In a statement, former Union Minister P Chidambaram said that “While the Modi government is running to take credit for this development, the truth is away from his spin.”
“This extradition is not the result of any grandeur, it is a will that the Indian state can achieve what can achieve diplomacy, law enforcement, and international collaboration honestly and without any kind of chest,” Chidambaram said. “This is a decade of a decade of labor, legal and intelligence efforts at the beginning of the UPA government in close coordination with the US,” he said.
“The coursework began on November 11, 2009, when the NIA registered a case in New Delhi against David Coalman Headley (US Citizen), Rana (Canadian citizen), and others involved in the 26/11 conspiracy. The Canadian Foreign Minister confirmed cooperation with Indian agencies, thanks to UPA’s effective foreign policy.”
In 2012, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid and Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai raised the case of extradition of Headley and Rana with US State Secretary Hillary Clinton and Under Secretary Wendy Sharman, which Chidambaram called a “textbook example” to handle international justice through diplomacy.
Even after the change in the government in 2014, this institutional effort was already in pace that kept the matter alive, he said. Chidambaram said that in February 2025, PM Modi and US President Trump tried to take credit for the “years of the years of the ground work of the Upa-era, which was compulsorily given credit.”
