Tahawwur Hussain Rana successfully extradited : NIA

NDC DESK

Tahawwur Hussain Rana, an accused in Mumbai terror attack was successfully extradited brought back to India from the US on Thursday.

He was brought in a special plane which departed the US on Wednesday. Rana is a key accused in the 26/11 attacks .He landed at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport at around 6.30 pm.

Rana was brought back by a team of the National Investigation Agency and the Research and Analysis Wing. Security has been stepped up in Delhi’s Patiala House Court where Rana will be produced soon, an official said.

A group of 10 Pakistani terrorists went on a rampage on November 26, 2008, carrying out a coordinated attack on a railway station, two luxury hotels and a Jewish centre, after they sneaked into India’s financial capital using the sea route in the Arabian Sea. As many as 166 people were killed in the nearly 60-hour assault. 

Rana is a close associate of David Coleman Headley alias Daood Gilani, a US citizen , who is one of the main conspirators in the attack