The Mumbai terror attack case accused Tahawwur Hussain Rana will reportedly land in Delhi today and is likely to be lodged in a high-security ward in Tihar jail after being extradited from the US.
Necessary preparations have been made for lodging him in jail, news agency PTI reported, quoting prison sources.
Rana is a Pakistan-born Canadian national and close associate of one of the main conspirators of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks David Coleman Headley. Rana is being brought to India after his last-ditch attempt to evade extradition failed as the US Supreme Court justices rejected his application.
A multi-agency team has gone to the US to bring him to India.
On November 26, 2008, a group of 10 Pakistani terrorists went on a rampage, 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.
