New Delhi: A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court today extended the custody of Tahawwur Hussain Rana, a key accused in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, by 12 days. Rana, recently extradited from the United States, had completed an 18-day NIA remand before being produced before Special Judge Chander Jit Singh.
Senior advocate Dayan Krishnan appeared for the NIA, while advocate Piyush Sachdeva, appointed by the Delhi Legal Services Authority, represented Rana. The extension follows reports that Rana was uncooperative during an eight-hour interrogation by the Mumbai Police Crime Branch at the NIA’s Delhi office.
Rana, a close aide of 26/11 conspirator David Coleman Headley, was extradited earlier this month after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his appeal against extradition — a major development in the long-running investigation into the 2008 Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people.
