The 26/11 Tawwur Hussain Rana, accused of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, visited some places from north to South India with his wife before the attack. After Rana’s possible extradition from the US, he can give important information about his visits made in 2008.
This will solve the mystery of these trips. Rana, 64, is a Canadian citizen born in Pakistan and a close aide of Pakistani-American terrorist David Coleman Headley.
Trump approves extradition
Rana has been under surveillance at a metropolitan custody center in Las Angelis since he completed 14 years of sentence in 2023. US President Donald Trump announced that his administration had approved Rana’s extradition to India. He described him as one of the conspirators of the world and one of the very bad people.
After extradition, Rana will be the third person to be sent to India after Ajmal Kasab and Jabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal in the case. Kasab, the only living Pakistani terrorist involved in the attack, was hanged in the Yerwada Jail in Pune in November 2012.
Rana visited India with his wife
Rana, who was arrested by the FBI on 27 October 2009, was charged by the NIA in 2011 under Section 6 (2) of the SAARC Conference on various sections of the Indian Penal Code and the suppression of terrorism. While finding Headley’s footsteps in India, central security officials found that Rana had visited Hapur, Delhi, Agra, Kochi, Ahmedabad and Mumbai between 13 November and 21 November 2008.
Rana presented the business sponsor letter from ‘Immigrant La Center’ and property tax payment notice from Cook County as proof of his address.
Now the purpose of these trips will be known
Officials said that once Rana will be brought to India, the purpose of these visits will be known. After being arrested in 2009, Rana was convicted in 2011 and sentenced to 14 years. Rana was convicted in the US in a case of helping terrorist conspiracy in Denmark and assisting terrorist organization Lashkar-e-Taiba.
The evidence of the trial also included a recorded conversation. It also included the September 2009 conversation when Headley and Rana talked about the report of Pakistani terrorist Ilyas Kashmiri killing. In another conversation, Rana had told Headley that the attackers involved in the Mumbai massacre should get Pakistan’s highest posthumous military honors.
