26/11 attack probe: Plotter Tahawwur Rana’s judicial custody prolonged; NIA files supplementary chargesheet | India News

NEW DELHI: A Delhi court docket on Wednesday prolonged until August 13 the judicial custody of 26/11 Mumbai terror attack accused Tahawwur Hussain Rana, who was extradited from the United States in April.Special decide Chander Jit Singh handed the order. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) produced Rana by way of video convention after the expiry of his judicial custody granted earlier, information company PTI reported.Also Read | ‘Being interrogated for 8-10 hours day by day; requested for pen, paper and Quran’: Inside 26/11 plotter Tahawwur Rana’s NIA custodyNIA additionally filed a supplementary chargesheet in opposition to Rana in reference to the case. The court docket will take into account the supplementary chargesheet on August 13.On July 15, the court docket will hear his utility looking for a telephonic name along with his household.The Pakistani-Canadian nationwide is a detailed affiliate of the principle 26/11 conspirator David Coleman Headley alias Dawood Gilani, an American citizen. The former was extradited after the US Supreme Court on April 4 dismissed his evaluate plea in opposition to the extradition.On November 26, 2008, a gaggle of 10 Pakistani terrorists went on a rampage in Mumbai, India’s monetary capital. The Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists carried out a coordinated attack on a railway station, two luxurious accommodations and a Jewish centre, having sneaked into the metropolis by way of the ocean route.As many as 166 individuals, together with foreigners, had been killed within the practically 60-hour assault, which was ended by the National Security Guard commandos. In May 2010, Ajmal Kasab, the one gunman who was captured alive, was convicted of waging struggle in opposition to India, and different costs. Kasab was hanged in November 2012.